Recent externally funded awards
November 2025
Includes grants, contracts and subcontracts awarded to KU-Lawrence investigators from external sponsors.
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cizek, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | Building Early Childhood-Child Welfare Partnerships to Support the Well-Being of Young Children, Families, and Caregivers | $261,709 |
| Cope, Dale | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Calista Education And Culture Inc. | Learning Maps for Math in a Cultural Context | $431,444 |
| Forbush, Kelsie | Clinical Child Psychology Program / Life Span Institute | Academy of Psychological Clinical Science | Help for Overcoming Problem Eating (HOPE): A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Single Session Intervention for Binge-Spectrum Eating Disorders | $2,000 |
| Hale, Richard | Aerospace Engineering | Wichita State University | Kansas National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program AY26 | $131,319 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Early Impact Virginia Dba Institute For The Advancement Of Family Support Professionals | Institute Maintenance - 3 Months | $101,479 |
| Kong, Kyoungchul | Physics and Astronomy | University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa | Symbolic Artificial Intelligence Learning Framework for High Energy Physics (SAIL-HEP) | $16,974 |
| Lou, Hao | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Developing irisin mutants and fusion proteins to combat obesity | $25,000 |
| Rong, Panying | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Frontiers Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of Kansas | $48,754 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | 2026 Local Technical Assistance Program LTAP | $784,348 |
| Scurto, Aaron | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Office of Research | Exxonmobil Corporation | Thermophysical Properties with Compressed Gases | $410,000 |
| Subramanian, Jaichandar | Pharmacology & Toxicology | National Institutes of Health | The Interplay of Neuronal Activity and Synaptic Abnormalities and their Restoration through Mitochondria in Alzheimer's Disease | $3,230,150 |
| Zagona, Alison | Special Education / Life Span Institute | Wayne State University | Collaborative Approaches to Impactful Special Education Leadership | $1,249,997 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allgeier, Alan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | American Chemical Society | ACS Graduate Student Success Grant: Prof. Alan Allgeier | $25,000 |
| Anatol, Giselle | Hall Center for the Humanities | The Andrew W Mellon Foundation | Navigating Academic Freedom and Democracy on a Public University Campus in America's Heartland | $300,000 |
| Anderson, Elizabeth | Sociology / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Society of Family Planning | Investigating the Connections Between Contraceptive Care Experiences and Unmet Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Needs | $1,969 |
| Arnold, Emily | Aerospace Engineering / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | Wichita State University | Ice Sounding Radar Array for NASA's Next-Generation Flying Laboratory | $26,825 |
| Basham, James | Special Education / Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Center for Innovation, Design, and Digital Learning (CIDDL) Revision | $3,500,000 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. | IDIQ: Capability Development | $44,700 |
| Brunetti, Maria Brigida | Physics and Astronomy | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory | LBNF/DUNE-US Operations | $19,388 |
| Colella, Jocelyn | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Tick, host, and pathogen surveillance in the Great Plains | $138,131 |
| Coleman, Audrey | Dole Institute of Politics | National Council For History Education | Learning Independence and Nationhood in Kansas Schools (LINKS) | $120,000 |
| Corson, Elizabeth | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Wichita State University | Design and Characterization of Plasmonic Structures for Carbon Valorization | $146,575 |
| Cushing, Christopher | Clinical Child Psychology / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | NRSA Training Core | $35,418 |
| Davidson, Meghan | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | American Speech-Language-Hearing Association | Bridging practice to research: Using a Delphi method to build a consensus-developed checklist for gestalt language processing | $25,000 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Newman University | Evaluation of Newman's HRSA/BHWET Grant | $86,570 |
| Gardner, Sara | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | Preschool Development Grant Birth Through Five Renewal Grant | $1,686,144 |
| Gover, Carlton | Anthropology / Biodiversity Institute | New South Associates | NWK Curation FY25-26 | $22,328 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Human Services | Data Application and Intergration Solution for the Early Years (DAISEY) Data System | $349,840 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Public Health | Iowa MIECHV Quality Improvement 2026 - Budget Reduction | $576,433 |
| Jackson, Timothy | Chemistry / Office of Research | University of Nebraska - Lincoln | Meadowlark Project | $1,000,000 |
| Johnson, Jennifer | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training | U.S. Department of Homeland Security | FY 25 State Training Grant | $20,000 |
| Johnson, Jennifer | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training | U.S. Department of Homeland Security | Fiscal Year 2024 Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program | $141,198 |
| Kurth, Jennifer | Special Education / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | SKIES (Skills and Knowledge for Interdisciplinary Preparation of Special Education and Speech-Language Professionals) | $1,250,000 |
| Lattin, Dana | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas TPE Expansion - Developing, Enhancing and Implementing High Quality Kansas CTPs | $2,556,613 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Tuttle Creek Lake Sediment Analysis and Reservoir Sediment Management Summit | $12,818 |
| Martin, Susan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | New Mexico Public Education Department | New Mexico Science Assessment | $1,502,663 |
| Mazzotti, Valerie | Special Education / Life Span Institute | University of Oregon | National Technical Assistance Center on Transition for Students and Youth With Disabilities | $326,876 |
| Naemi Jimenez, Pegah | Social Welfare | Administration For Children & Families | Family, Opportunity, Resilience, Grit, Engagement - Fatherhood (Kansas FORGE Fatherhood) | $749,999 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / Transportation Center | University of Missouri - Columbia | Traffic Control for Work Zones in Alternative Intersections | $35,000 |
| Shelley, John | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Water Office | Kansas Reservoir Sediment Management | $278,989 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Wise Institute for Sustainable Engineering | Earth Membership Fee Seed Project | Earth Membership Fee Seed Project | $1 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Pfizer Inc | Sustainable Continuous Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals | $29,461 |
| Sutley, Elaina | Engineering Administration / Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | RAPID: Fundamental Behavior of Manufactured Homes under Windstorms through Full-scale Experimentation and Numerical Modeling | $200,000 |
| Timmons, Lisa | Molecular Biosciences | National Science Foundation | REU SITE: The Stressed Life of Cells | $464,355 |
| Wilson, Blake | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Maintain Kansas-based data services to the NGWMN, 2025 - 2026 | $33,948 |
| Wolfe, Michael | Medicinal Chemistry | Brigham & Women's Hospital Research Administration | Leveraging Heterogeneity in Autosomal Dominant AD to Elucidate Pathophysiology and Improve AD Biomarkers | $590,181 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akin, Rebecca | Social Welfare | Annie E. Casey Foundation | Support for Formative Evaluation of SOUL Family in Kansas | $60,000 |
| Azeltine, Abby | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Kansas State Plan for Assistive Technology (AT State Grant) | $465,479 |
| Beck, Emily | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | University of Kansas Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (KU ADRC) | $91,800 |
| Blakemore, James | Chemistry | U.S. Department of Energy | Actinyl Capture and Bond Activation by Electron Transfer and Acid/Base Chemistry | $625,000 |
| Brazil, Adam | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Patterson Family Foundation | Sunflower State Support Network (3SN) | $499,949 |
| Caine, Carolyn | Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Department For Children And Families | Proposal to evaluate Kansas Department of Children and Families efforts to cultivate leadership and advance core beliefs among staff | $23,631 |
| Corson, Elizabeth | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Wichita State University | Design and Characterization of Plasmonic Structures for Carbon Valorization | $46,204 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Chemical Profiles of Dwarf Stars and Their Planets | $462,120 |
| Darwin, David | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | OK Department of Transportation | Enhancing MALP and MKP as Repair Materials Through Joint Usage and in Combination with Ceramic Paint | $341,539 |
| Farber, Rachael | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: FEC: EPSCoR RII: Harnessing Artificial Magnetic Semiconductors in Flatland | $2,192,722 |
| Fazzino, Tera | Psychology / Life Span Institute | American Psychological Association | American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award | $4,306 |
| Franz, Nico | Biodiversity Institute | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Integration of Data for the U.S. National Pollinating Insect Collection into the USDA Biocollections Symbiota Portal | $39,127 |
| Grube, Whitney | Social Welfare | United Methodist Health Ministry Fund | EPSDT Survey Development, Administration, and Analysis Initiative | $30,123 |
| Hefty, Phillip | Molecular Biosciences | Designzyme | Development of Covalently Bound Hyaluronic Acid as an Efficient Adjuvant for a Multivalent Lyme Disease Vaccine | $175,000 |
| Holt, Christina | Life Span Institute | United Methodist Health Ministry Fund | UMHMF Contract ID #20200899 | $30,195 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Idaho State Department of Education | Idaho DLM: 2025-2026 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Sci) + Science Development + Additional Services | $97,620 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | New Mexico Public Education Department | New Mexico DLM: 2025- 2026 Operational/Testing (ELA, MATH, Sci) + Additional Services | $690,440 |
| Kondyli, Alexandra | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Impact of Passing Lane Guidance through Angled Markings on Two-Lane Rural Highways | $92,499 |
| Koziol, Elizabeth | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Society For The Protection Of Underground Networks | SPUN Deep Soil Microbes | $8,500 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Revenue | 2025-2027 Kansas On-Line Automated Reporting (KOLAR) project | $122,000 |
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Data Science Core Facility | $153,000 |
| Metz, Brent | Latin Amer & Caribbean Studies | Tinker Foundation Inc | Tinker Field Research Collaborative 2026-2030 | $150,000 |
| Schultz, Jerry | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Service | Kansas Prevention Collaborative (KPC) Community Documentation Evaluation Initiative | $807,942 |
| Seybold, Erin | Geology / Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Health & Environmt | KGS/AWQUA well sampling | $37,215 |
| Shellhorn, Jeremy | Design | University of Montana | Signage and communication study in support of Tahoe Blue Beaches | $16,000 |
| Smith, Jon | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Geologic Mapping in Kansas for FY25 | $1,164,347 |
| Smith, Kendrick | Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | Designing chemoenzymatic approaches to biologically active molecules enabled by enzyme library screening | $747,000 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Chevron Phillips Chemical Company | CP Chem Catalyst Screening | $43,000 |
| Touyz, Paul | Classics | Harvard University | The Third Genre:Satyr Play in Antiquity | $25,000 |
| Wilson, Blake | Kansas Geological Survey | National Groundwater Monitoring Network | Maintain Kansas-based data services to the NGWMN, 2025 - 2026 | $33,948 |
| Wolfe, Michael | Medicinal Chemistry | K-Inbre Institutional Funds | Proteolytic Dysfunction of Gamma-Secretase in Alzheimer's Disease | $20,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences | National Institutes of Health | Graduate Training at the Biology-Chemistry Interface | $2,131,800 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Consolidated: Star Trainees, Summer Scholars and Campus Coordinator | $82,620 |
| Amlung, Michael | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Contextual factors influencing cannabis use and behavioral economic demand in the natural environment. | $80,616 |
| Azeltine, Abby | Life Span Institute | Federal Communications Commission | Kansas Deaf Blind Equipment Distribution--Assistive Technology for Kansans KS iCan Connect | $108,781 |
| Barton, Jared | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Ohio Department of Children Youth | State of Ohio ROM FY26-FY27 | $199,060 |
| Besson, David | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | WoU-MMA: Ice Characterization and Calibration | $518,500 |
| Boskovic, Zarko | Medicinal Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Exploiting Mechanistic Knowledge to Develop Selective and Robust Synthetic n,pi-star Photochemistry | $575,000 |
| Bream, Brendan | Kansas Geological Survey | Korea Institute of Geoscience And Mineral Resources | THMC-based Numerical Modeling of Multi-component Gas System | $43,886 |
| Davido, David | Molecular Biosciences | National Institutes of Health | Determining the role of PARP14 in restricting HSV-1 replication | $411,499 |
| Desaire, Heather | Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | Technology Developments in Biomedical Mass Spectrometry | $2,116,651 |
| Erber, Luke | Medicinal Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | DNA Protein Cross-Links: Metabolic Sources and Repair | $1,843,775 |
| Fehr, Anthony | Molecular Biosciences | National Institutes of Health | Determining mechanisms of innate immune modulation b ADP-ribosylation | $2,229,202 |
| Fehr, Anthony | Molecular Biosciences | National Science Foundation | Determining how the evolution of the coronavirus macrodomain contributes to its biochemical and virological functions | $1,000,000 |
| Flinders, Jennifer | Achievement & Assessment Institute | State of Minnesota | MN StoryCollective | $102,708 |
| Gabriele, Alison | Linguistics / Life Span Institute | Language Learning: Jrnl Of Rsch In Ls | Examining the role of individual differences and syntactic constraints in the processing of reflexives in L1 and L2 English: an ERP investigation | $1,980 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Ted Renewables Llc | The Economic Impacts of the Branchline Solar Development on Kansas and Sedgwick County | $33,372 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Illinois | 2025 - 2026: All Our Kids Network University of Illinois IRIS Proposal (Year 8) | $62,891 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wisconsin Child Abuse & Neglect Prevention Board | Wisconsin Child Abuse & Neglect Prevention Board DAISEY | $151,446 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Department Of Wildlife And Parks | Surveys to assess recovery of the Mill Creek aquatic community after an oil spill in Washington County, Kansas. | $297,186 |
| Harvey, Susan | Health, Sport & Exercise Science | Sheridan County Hospital Dba Ambermed | Kansas Produce Prescription Program for Frontier Kids | $47,765 |
| Hashemi, Morteza | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Aerospec: An Adaptive Spectrum Framework for Autonomous Aerial Systems: Optimization, Decentralized Markets, and Deployment | $760,000 |
| Herda, Trent | Health, Sport & Exercise Science / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Children'S Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | Associations between anti-obesity pharmacotherapy-induced changes in skeletal muscle function and appetite in adolescents with obesity: A pilot study | $5,000 |
| Jackson, Noel | Geology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Follow on to Seafloor Optical Fiber Strainmeters for the Detection of Slow Slip Events in Cascadia | $227,183 |
| Johnson, Mathew | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Wave Modulation & Stability in Applied Mathematics | $220,000 |
| Johnson, Michael | Chemistry | Pinnacle Technology Inc | Functionalized Multi-Modal Tetrode Arrays for Real-Time, Site-Specific Neurochemical Monitoring (Phase II) | $333,855 |
| Kalbas, James | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas State University | Master of Science Thesis Project Focused on Delineation of the Dakota Aquifer System in Central Kansas | $45,841 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Colorado Department. Of Education | Colorado DLM: 2025 - 2031 Operational/Testing (ELA, MATH) | $628,000 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | State of New Jersey Department of Education | New Jersey DLM: 2025 - 2026 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Sci) + Additional Services | $2,024,861 |
| Kim, Huijeong | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | SCC-DG: Community-driven Circular Energy Storage: Strengthening Resilience Through Technological Charity | $150,000 |
| Kirkpatrick, Allison | Physics and Astronomy | Nasa | Exploring the Evolution of Unobscured Quasars Across Time | $550,178 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | University Of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Cooking skills to improve long-term weight loss in young adults with intellectual disabilities | $7,944 |
| Koziol, Elizabeth | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Society For The Protection Of Underground Networks | Restoring Underground Alliances: Mycorrhizal Fungi in Tallgrass Prairie Conservation and Restoration | $10,500 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Stem Next Opportunity Fund | Counting on OST STEM in Kansas | $10,000 |
| Lewis, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | U.S. Department of Energy | Particle Physics on the Plains 2025 | $5,000 |
| Lovell, Scott | Molecular Biosciences | Seattle Children'S Hospital | Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease Renewal: 2025-2026 | $638,316 |
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Kansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence 5: Data Science Core Services | $29,703 |
| Mantzavinos, Dionyssios | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Integrable and Non-Integrable Wave Models under the Effect of Nonzero Boundary Conditions | $236,282 |
| Mease, Kristina | Business / Small Business Development Center | Fort Hays State University | University of Kansas Small Business Development Center 2026 (State Funds) | $100,000 |
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | Vigindustries Inc. | Monitoring of High Priority Salt Jugs near the Irsik & Doll Elevator, BNSF Railroad, V&S Railroad Right-of-Way, and William Street with Supporting VSPs in Hutchinson, Kansas | $721,074 |
| Morgan, Dyan | Undergraduate Biology Program | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | ICURE: a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience in Immunology | $22,950 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Revenue | Open Records for Kansas Appraisers (ORKA) and Statewide Tax Units Database | $114,000 |
| Orozco, Robin | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | IRACDA Continued Support | $87,998 |
| Scurto, Aaron | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Wise Institute for Sustainable Engineering | Icorium Engineering Company | SBIR PHASE II: Single-Stream Reclamation Process for Complex Refrigerant Mixtures | $148,913 |
| Seo, Hyunjin | Journalism / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Spencer Foundation | Technology Education for Women Transitioning from Incarceration | $24,416 |
| Slusky, Joanna | Molecular Biosciences | University of California - Davis | Leveraging Machine Learning to Explore the Effects of the Design2Data Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience | $30,148 |
| Snow, Nancy | Philosophy / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Wake Forest University | Character Development at the University of Kansas: The IRISE Virtues Initiative | $699,287 |
| Song, Yu | Health, Sport & Exercise Science / Achievement & Assessment Institute | American College of Sports Medicine Foundation | 2025-2026 CSACSM Student Research Grant: Backward or Forward? Better Identifying Knee Deficits After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury | $499 |
| Song, Yu | Health, Sport & Exercise Science / Achievement & Assessment Institute | American College of Sports Medicine Foundation | 2025-2026 CSACSM Student Research Grant: Knee Function and Quadriceps Strength Assessments in Patients After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction | $1,500 |
| Wolfe, Michael | Medicinal Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | KBOR25 K-INBRE Bridging Award: Structure and Function of Gamma-Secretase in Alzheimer's Disease | $20,000 |
| Wu, Shu | Economics / Geography and Atmospheric Science | University of Oklahoma | Investigating Surface Mechanical and Thermodynamic Forcing of Convective Development at the Continental-to-Maritime Transition Zone of West Africa | $123,463 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bever, James | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Perennial Agriculture Project, Llc | A Comprehensive Assessment of IWG-Microbe-Nitrogen Interaction | $351,559 |
| Boyd, Christina | Social Welfare | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Kansas Fights Addiction ECHO: Advancing Centers for Excellence | $11,677 |
| Buzhardt Jr, Joseph | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | AccessAble Kansas: A Digital Gateway to Disability Support and Healthcare Navigation | $256,962 |
| Buzhardt Jr, Joseph | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Increasing Access to Evidence-based Practices for Latino Families of Children with Autism: Development of the Embajadora Training and Outreach Program | $249,999 |
| Colella, Jocelyn | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / KU Biodiversity Institute | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Biodiversity and connectivity of insular bats in the South Pacific | $378,447 |
| Collins, William | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | K-TRAN KU-26-1: Thermal Effects on Concrete Substructure Elements | $88,984 |
| Dean, Evan | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Service | Kansas Employment First Training and Technical Assistance Center | $1,344,867 |
| Dozier, Claudia | Applied Behavioral Science | Goodlife Innovations Inc. | Technical Assistance for GoodLife (2025-2026) | $131,404 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | One Heart Project | Evaluation of KS One Heart Project | $10,000 |
| Friis, Elizabeth | Mechanical Engineering | Directsync Surgical, Llc | Development of a Piezoelectric Intramedullary Nail for Enhanced Fracture Healing | $10,059 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | United Methodist Health Ministry Fund | The Power of Public Dollars: Tracking Government Funding in Kansas | $100,000 |
| Hageman, Michael | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | Continuum Educational Technologies Pbc | Translation Development of a Novel Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT) Prodrug for Treatment of Hypogonadism | $25,000 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Evaluating and Projecting Long-Term HAB and Water Quality Trends in Federal Reservoirs in the Neosho, Ninnescah, Walnut, Verdigris, and Marais des Cygnes Basins | $137,000 |
| Hernandez, Sarah | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Early Impact Virginia Dba Institute For The Advancement Of Family Support Professionals | Institute Validation | $62,720 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas Student Support Services Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Health Sciences (SSS STEM) | $1,370,070 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Alaska Department of Education & Early Development | Alaska DLM: 2025-2026 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Sci) + Science Development | $370,300 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Illinois State Board of Education | Illinois DLM: 2025-2030 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Sci) | $15,067,200 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | Oklahoma DLM 2025 - 2026 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Sci) + Additional Services | $1,561,728 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | West Virginia Department of Education | West Virginia DLM: 2025-2026 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Sci) + Additional Services | $496,680 |
| Kemper, Kate | Center for Service Learning | The Allstate Foundation | CELO/All State Foundation College Service Grant | $10,000 |
| Kindscher, Kelly | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | American Herbal Products Association | Oshá, Ligusticum porteri, Mapping and Co-Occurring Plants in Colorado National Forests | $6,000 |
| Kondyli, Alexandra | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | KTRAN KU-26-4: From Analysis to Action: Investigating Crash Readiness and the Role of Vehicle Features in Kansas Fatal and Serious Injury Crashes | $85,000 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Examining the Effectiveness of a Community-based High-Intensity Functional Training Intervention on Functional Health Outcomes for Adults with Mobility Disabilities | $750,000 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | A statewide inventory of the dominant reservoir sedimentation sources to inform targeted watershed conservation and upstream mitigation practices | $102,764 |
| Levy, Michelle | Social Welfare | Health Resources & Service Administration | Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Program | $2,400,000 |
| Li, Jian | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | KTRAN KU 26-2: Enhancing Airport Runway Safety through Drone-Based Inspection Systems | $65,471 |
| Lovell, Scott | Molecular Biosciences | Kansas State University | Small molecule inhibitors against 3C-like protease of SARS-CoV-2: 2025-2026 | $75,750 |
| Lovell, Scott | Molecular Biosciences | Tango2 Research Foundation | Novel Insights into TANGO2 Structure and Function | $25,000 |
| Miller, Brennan | Social Welfare | Racial Equity Collaborative Inc | Racial Equity Data (Data) Dashboard | $36,000 |
| Miller, Brennan | Social Welfare | Racial Equity Collaborative Inc | Racial Equity Data Dashboard | $30,000 |
| Miller, Brennan | Social Welfare | Racial Equity Collaborative Inc | Racial Equity Data (RED) Dashboard | $9,000 |
| Mills, Elisabeth | Physics and Astronomy | Nasa | PRIMA Community Astronomy Science and Technology talks, or P-CAST | $35,872 |
| Rodriguez-Morales, Fernando | Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | Alfred Wegener Institute For Polar & Mar | Development of high-power amplifier modules for a multi-channel UWB radar | $281,325 |
| Rowe, Neil | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Human Services | 1st Five Healthy Mental Development Initiative: Evaluation (State Funds) | $113,813 |
| Schnitz, Alana | Life Span Institute | The Family Conservancy | Start Young | $59,976 |
| Shogren, Karrie | Life Span Institute | National Institute On Disability & Rehabilitation Research | Changing Systems and Empowering People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities to Obtain Employment on Inclusive Research Teams | $250,000 |
| Tanis, Emily | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Service | Supportive Technology Grant Agreement | $1,000,000 |
| Tapia Takaki, Jesus Daniel | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | AcceINet Implementation Phase 1: Inter-American Network of Networks of Quantum Chromo-Dynamics Challenges | $600,000 |
| Teator, Aaron | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Exploiting the Brook Rearrangement for Anionic Migration Polymerization (AMP) | $687,940 |
| Tran, Dai | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | University of Kentucky Research Foundation | Practical Framework for a Bridge and Tunnel Construction Inspection Certification Program | $37,643 |
| Zipper, Samuel | Geology / Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Quantitative Analysis of Trends in Kansas' Hydroclimatic Compound Extremes | $86,920 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Arkansas Department of Education | Arkansas DLM: 2025 - 2032 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Sci) + Additional Services | $10,370,477 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Montana Office of Public Instruction | Montana DLM: 2025-2030 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Sci) + Science Development | $2,845,000 |
| Vakser, Ilya | Computational Biology | National Institutes of Health | Modeling of Macromolecular Interactions in the Cell | $1,812,405 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Missouri Department - Elementary/Secondary Ed | Missouri DLM: 2025-2026: Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Sci) + Additional Services | $1,219,349 |
| Gaumer Erickson, Amy | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Education | Evidence-Based Professional Development System Evaluation (TASN Eval) | $794,971 |
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Enhanced Monitoring of Arbuckle Static Fluid Levels, Bottom-Hole Pressures, and Fluid Density is Southcentral Kansas | $660,000 |
| Cox, Kara | KU Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | Technical Services for the Kansas Rural Transit Assistance Program (RTAP) | $251,043 |
| Elles, Christopher | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Developing Two-photon-absorbing Chromophores for NIR Light-driven Photocatalysis | $199,125 |
| Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Devon Energy Corporation | Surfactant EOR Study in the Williston Basin | $156,558 |
| Bravo Suarez, Juan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | American Chemical Society | Mechanochemical Conversion of Carbon Dioxide in The Presence of Liquid Metals | $125,000 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Project Eagle: Early Head Start | $114,374 |
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S Army Corp of Engineers | Advancing Seismic Processing Techniques (Full Waveform Inversion, Artificial Intelligence, Joint Version) To Improve Identification, Resolution, and Characterization of Anomalies in Dams and Levees with Failure Potential | $102,562 |
| Blakemore, James | Chemistry / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Chevron Phillips Chemical Company | Fouling Under Slurry Conditions: Characterization, Mechanism, and Mitigation | $100,000 |
| Reuman, Daniel | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Department of Agriculture | Developing AI-based Crop and Water Analytics and High-resolution Yield Forecasting Services for the Kansas Agricultural Community: Phase I Proposal | $100,000 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | KTRAN KU-13: Improve Wet-weather Visibility of Retroreflective Pavement Markings | $91,500 |
| Johnson, Jennifer | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | NASA | Developing a Multi-scale Representation of Photosynthesis for Earth System Analysis and Prediction | $91,162 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Project Eagle: Head Start | $82,774 |
| Huang, Cheng | Aerospace Engineering | Crafttech Combustion Research And Flow Technology Inc. | A Multi-Zonal Multi-Timescale Modeling Framework to Accelerate Fluid-Thermal Analyses of Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine | $75,000 |
| Tran, Dai | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Colorado State University | A Guide to Developing Construction Inspector Career Path Programs | $65,000 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Sediment and Water Sample Collection for Characterization and Testing from Five Kansas Federal Reservoirs | $60,000 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Department of Agriculture | Inundation Characteristics for Constructed Ponds Along the Arkansas River in Colorado | $50,000 |
| Denning, Andrew | Museum Studies | Douglas County Heritage Conservation Council | Unlocking Haskell Cultural Center & Museums Historic Collection | $41,351 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Corporation Commission | Kansas On-line Automated Reporting (KOLAR) project FY2026 | $40,000 |
| Moskovitz, Jackob | Pharmacology & Toxicology | Continuum Educational Technologies Pbc | Methionine-sulfoxide-based Active Immunization Against Alzheimer's disease | $25,000 |
| Hoque, Tamzidul | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: SaTC: EDU: Project HaCKSEE: A Scalable Platform for Remote Hardware Security Education | $16,000 |
| Clasby, Ryan | Spencer Museum of Art | New Faculty Research Development Award | Art of the Indigenous Amazon: Deconstructing the Western Imagination of the Amazon Rainforest and Its People | $10,000 |
| Corson, Elizabeth | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | New Faculty Research Development Award | In Situ Analysis of CO2 Electroreduction on Cu Perovskite Oxides: Investigating Catalyst Evolution, Mechanisms, and Selectivity | $10,000 |
| Earll, David | Band Orchestra Instrumental Music / Music | New Faculty Research Development Award | Many Facets - Music for Tuba in Different Mediums | $10,000 |
| Edgar, Grace | Academic Music / Music | New Faculty Research Development Award | Atomic Measures: Scoring Women in Cold-War Action Cinema | $10,000 |
| Zhao, Ming | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | New Faculty Research Development Award | Targeted Delivery of CRISPR Base Editors to Gepatocytes Using Lipid Nanoparticles with Minimal Off-editing Effect for Primary Hyperoxaluria Management | $10,000 |
| McEwan, John | KU Libraries | New Faculty Research Development Award | Visual Culture and Identity in Thirteenth Century London | $9,996 |
| Shetty, Nishit | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | New Faculty Research Development Award | Advancing Indoor Air Quality Monitoring: A Novel Method for Assessing the Hygroscopicity of Respiratory Aerosols | $9,951 |
| Li, Yue | Communication Studies / Institute for Policy & Social Research | New Faculty Research Development Award | Investigating the Effectiveness of Theory-driven AI-based Misinformation Interventions in Public Health Policies | $9,917 |
| Fletcher, Courtney | Voice Piano Organ Church Music / Music | New Faculty Research Development Award | "I Know My Mind: Songs of Women Composers": A Recording for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano | $9,900 |
| Longyang, Qianqiu | Kansas Geological Survey | New Faculty Research Development Award | Developing a Multi-Source Data Fusion Framework for High-Frequency Groundwater Datasets | $9,781 |
| Embry, Elizabeth | Business | New Faculty Research Development Award | Building Trauma-Informed Workplaces | $9,579 |
| Stewart, Shannon | Theatre and Dance | New Faculty Research Development Award | FOREST Collaborations - An Iterative, and Multi-locale Community Research and Performance Project Exploring Ecological Kinship | $9,184 |
| Matsunaga, Kelly | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | New Faculty Research Development Award | Investigating Duplication and Expression of AGAMOUS Genes in the Cypress Family | $2,500 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seo, Hyunjin | Journalism / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kauffman Foundation | Kansas City Coalition for Career Readiness and Digital Skills Among Justice-Involved Women | $1,483,366 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Idaho State Department Of Education | Idaho DLM Transition Services | $523,129 |
| Holt, Christina | Life Span Institute | Kauffman Foundation | Participatory Evaluation and Capacity Building for the Kauffman Foundation’s Collective Impact Initiative | $349,030 |
| Heintzelman, Matthew | Institute for Information Sciences | University Of Missouri - Kansas City | Gaining Radar Advances with Spatio-temporally-variant waveform Predictive planning (GRASP) | $301,720 |
| Hashemi, Morteza | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Arizona State University | GOALI: CNS: Medium: Communication-Computation Co-Design for Rural Connectivity and Intelligence under Nonuniformity: Modeling, Analysis, and Implementation | $168,548 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Maximizing sediment and water quality monitoring during Water Injection Dredging in Tuttle Creek Lake | $130,000 |
| Saatcioglu, Argun | Sociology / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Blaque Kansas City | TeachKC: Kauffman Foundation Collective Impact Planning Grant | $90,000 |
| Mohr, Charles | Institute for Information Sciences | Kbr Wyle Services Llc | Research and Development of Advanced Radar LPI-Optimized waVEforms (RADAR LOVE) | $70,000 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | Society For Molecular Biology And Evolution | SMBE Satellite Meeting: Evolutionary Biochemistry of Insect Antimicrobial Peptides | $45,000 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department For Children And Families | Kansas Early Head Start Data Reporting System (DAISEY) FY26 | $32,840 |
| Grube, Whitney | Social Welfare | University Of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Kansas Family Support Center Parent Support Network | $28,002 |
| Ko, Chien-Ho | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Jobsite Safety Institute | Fleet Safety Innovations for SMEs: A Business Case of Telematics Adoption | $25,000 |
| Onasch, Whitney | Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Public Transit Association | The Economic Impact of Public Transit in Kansas | $25,000 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Confirmation of the closest directly detected exoplanet: a super-Jupiter orbiting Eps Ind A | $22,087 |
| Colella, Jocelyn | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Ku Center For Genomics | Is the evolution of genomic incompatibilities repeatable? Identifying barriers to reproduction across three geographically distinct hybrid zones | $15,000 |
| Ashourvan, Arian | Psychology | American Epilepsy Society | 2025 AES BRIDGE Summer Research Internship Grant | $11,480 |
| Holt, Christina | Life Span Institute | Kauffman Foundation | Participatory Evaluation and Capacity Building for the Kauffman Foundations Collective Impact Initiative | $4,600 |
| Kerr, Barbara | Educational Psychology / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Society Of Pediatric Psychology | Wellbeing and Strengths in Caregivers of Children with Pediatric Feeding Disorder | $1,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. | Spectrum Management in Congested and Contested Electromagnetic Environments | $3,856,752 |
| Martin, Susan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Education | Partnership to Review and Improve Student Performance Via Multiple Measures (PRISM) | $2,409,390 |
| Butler Jr, James | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Airborne electromagnetic survey of GMD1 | $700,000 |
| Zipper, Samuel | Geology / Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas State University | Sustainable Irrigation and Climate Adaptation in Southern High Plains: A Satellite-Enabled and Peer-Led Model | $527,097 |
| Ishman, Scott | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Health & Environmt | Western Kansas Artificial Recharge Project | $425,534 |
| Blumenstiel, Justin | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Science Foundation | EAGER: Tools4Cells: Tools for locus-specific and interaction-specific protein depletion | $300,000 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | North Dakota Department of Public Instruction | North Dakota DLM: 2025 - 2026 Operational/Testing (ELA, MATH, Sci) | $287,900 |
| Hui, Rongqing | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Ciena Corporation | Collaborative Research in Digital Coherent Optical Systems and Sensors | $225,000 |
| Gard, Sarah | Dole Institute of Politics | West Virginia University | Digital Archives Portal: Congressional Archives for Education | $224,264 |
| McCormick, Patrick | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Lockheed Martin | Shield IRAD - StoWGe Enhancements | $150,000 |
| Dean, Evan | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | KS Department of Labor Equitable Transition Model: Employment Support Worker Training | $107,573 |
| Mohr, Charles | Institute for Information Sciences | Defense Engineering Corporation | Advanced Waveform Investigation | $95,000 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Student Research Program (formerly Undergraduate Research Office) Year 12 | $68,850 |
| Buzhardt Jr, Joseph | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Mentor DCF Capacity Building | $58,872 |
| Roy, Anuradha | Biomedical Services Labs / High Throughput Screening | Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Diffuse Midline Glioma Using High-Throughput Combination Drug Screening | $50,000 |
| Fry, Andrew | Health, Sport & Exercise Science / Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Pittsburgh | Optimizing Muscle and Bone Mechanoadaptation to Physical Training: Mechanistic Control Pathways via Muscle Bone Crosstalk to Altered Mechanical Loading | $46,105 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Agriculture | Kansas Base Flood Elevation Portal | $39,734 |
| Franz, Nico | Biodiversity Institute | University of Texas-Austin | PurSUiT: The Final Frontier of Vertebrate Taxonomy: Documenting the Diversity of Cryptobenthic Coral Reef Fishes in the lndo-Pacific | $36,831 |
| Schulz, Armin | Philosophy | Georgetown University | Internal conflict and the origins of collective agency in biology and economics | $36,593 |
| Yao, Zijun | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | University of Wyoming | Enhancing Digital Learning Outcomes through Personalized Content Recommendation | $25,000 |
| Washburn, Jocelyn | Life Span Institute | Arizona State Department of Education | Supporting Specially Designed Instruction Through Collaboration, Professional Learning, and Technical Assistance | $24,230 |
| Harvey, Susan | Health, Sport & Exercise Science / Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Food is Medicine Evaluation-Year 3 | $22,895 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Republic of Palau Division of Research And Evaluation | Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment (Palau) | $19,941 |
| Rudnick, Gregory | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Skeletons in the Cluster: Unveiling the Stellar Mass Backbone of z=1.6 Galaxies | $16,653 |
| Baer, Sara | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | The Garden Club of America | Understanding the roles of community resilience and soil fungal pathogens in enhancing diversity of a species-poor restored prairie | $8,000 |
| Buzhardt Jr, Joseph | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Examining Mechanisms of Challenging Eating Behaviors in Children with Autism Using a Biopsychological Approach | $7,939 |
| Colella, Jocelyn | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | American Genetic Association | Adaptation to mitonuclear discordance across repeated contact zones in a North American rodent | $6,000 |
| Collins, William | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Axioforce | Cyclic Testing of Force Plate | $3,220 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peelaers, Hartwin | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | REU SITE: University of Kansas Physics and Astronomy Research Experiences for Undergraduates | $460,000 |
| Cascio, Carissa | Psychology / Life Span Institute | Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Ultra-high resolution imaging of category-selective visual cortex in autism | $387,605 |
| Bream, Brendan | Kansas Geological Survey | University of Wyoming | Regional study of Great Plains and Interior Highlands | $341,210 |
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | KUCC Commitment for IRACDA at the University of Kansas | $87,998 |
| Walker, Lindsay | Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: GEO OSE Track 1: Community-driven enhancement of information ecosystems for the discovery and use of paleontological specimen data | $83,103 |
| Yao, Zijun | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | University of Wyoming | Developing A Multi-Agent System to Enhance AI-Human Collaboration in IEP Development for Students with Disabilities | $70,000 |
| Gardner, Sara | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | KDHE Home Visiting Support (TO 25030 - State) | $60,000 |
| Wang, Zhi | Aerospace Engineering | Ge Aerospace Research | High-Order Shock-Fitting Approach for High-Order Shock Computation | $50,000 |
| Bream, Brendan | Kansas Geological Survey | Missouri Geological Survey | Geochemical Survey of Tri-State Mining Areas, Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma | $49,515 |
| Lieberman, Bruce | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | Proposal for a Workshop to Bring Together a Community of Paleontology Journals, Online Article Repositories, and Databases to Chart a FAIR Future for Their Data | $31,384 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Jet Propulsion Lab - California Technology | NEID: A3C RVs: Atmospheres, Activity, Architectures, & Compositions of Sub-Neptunes | $13,000 |
| Lunte, Susan | Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine: COBRE Admin Core | $8,492 |
| Koliba, Christopher | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | University of Vermont | CIROH Establishing a Coupled Human-Water Systems Modeling Think Tank for Advancing Social Models in Parallel with the NextGen Model | $5,883 |
| Koliba, Christopher | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | University of Vermont | Developing and integrating a social water use model to improve the predictive capacity of water resource models to account for water uses and sector tradeoffs | $5,040 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gardner, Sara | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | KDHE Home Visiting Support (TO 25030 - Fed) | $1,233,198 |
| Bergman, Patricia | Economic Development / Office of Research | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | Kansas Fostering Opportunities for Research, Growth and Entrepreneurship (FORGE) | $1,000,000 |
| Hutchison, Justin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Water Resources Institute | BIOSAFE: Quantifying Bioaccumulation of PFAS in Photosynthetic Organisms for Safe Reservoir Management | $620,001 |
| Roberts, Jennifer | Academic Affairs / Graduate Studies | National Science Foundation | FY 2024 Graduate Research Fellowship Program | $570,040 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Wise Institute for Sustainabile Engineering | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | Environmentally Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub (EARTH) | $500,000 |
| Wagner, Margaret | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | North Carolina State University | NSF-BSF: EDGE-CMT: High-throughput discovery and testing of microbial genes modulating specificity and microbial load on plant roots | $392,591 |
| Red Corn, Sean | Indigenous Studies / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Spencer Foundation | The Tribal Education Department Capacity Building Project | $310,835 |
| Levy, Michelle | Social Welfare | Sunflower Foundation | Enhancing SBIRT through Provider Workforce Development in Kansas | $140,401 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | Project AWARE-SEA | $77,701 |
| Owen, Jonathan | Institute for Information Sciences | Ierus Technologies, Inc. | STTR Phase I: STTR Optimized OTHR Waveform and Processing | $70,000 |
| Koliba, Christopher | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa | To serve the underserved - Identifying and reaching out to the underserved communities in the experimental FIM areas | $69,601 |
| Gardner, Sara | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Child Care Systems Improvement Team (TO 25033) | $60,000 |
| Dickerson, Qinyan | Life Span Institute | Iowa Department of Human Services | FY25 Community Check Box Evaluation System for Partnerships for Success to Prevent Alcohol Misuse | $43,973 |
| Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Samuel Gary Jr. And Associates Incorporated | Core characterization and acidizing optimization for LKC B | $33,110 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Trihydro Corporation | Remote Sensing Vegetation Survey | $20,000 |
| Jongman, Allard | Linguistics | National Science Foundation | Doctoral Dissertation Research: Developing phonetic training for improving the learning of second language stress | $12,072 |
| Samson, Midori | Music | Nfrd New Faculty Research Development Award | Conversations with the Ancestors I Never Got to Meet: A Musical Album and Art Installation Investigating Historical Trauma | $10,000 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas State University | Wheat Production and Processing Assessment for Georgia | $5,000 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | Society For The Study of Evolution | Population dynamics of X chromosome drive in Drosophila affinis | $3,500 |
| Forbush, Kelsie | Clinical Child Psychology / Life Span Institute | American Psychological Foundation | 2024 COGDOP Graduate Research Scholarship (William C. Howell Scholarship) | $2,500 |
| Subramanian, Jaichandar | Pharmacology & Toxicology | Kansas State University | Cognitive and Neurobiological Approaches to Plasticity (CNAP) | $2,295 |
| Gallagher, Philip | Health, Sport & Exercise Science | American College of Sports Medicine Foundation | Sex Differences in Fiber-type and Knee Mechanics: Implications for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries | $1,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wills, Howard | Educational Psychology / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Collaborative to Improve Classroom Engagement and Outcomes for Native American and Rural Students | $15,491,450 |
| Chandler, Josephine | Molecular Biosciences | National Institutes of Health | Quorum sensing evolution and function in mixed bacterial communities | $2,162,077 |
| Barnaba, Carlo | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | Mechanisms of Metabolic Adaptation: from Single Molecules to Systems Biology | $1,820,145 |
| Fang, Huazhen | Mechanical Engineering | Rejoule | Long Duration Energy Storage | $912,303 |
| Sun, Hongyang | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Embracing Uncertainty in HPC Resource Scheduling: An Integrated Algorithmic and ML-Based Approach | $558,208 |
| McCormick, Patrick | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Geospatial Intelligence Agency | Midwest University Scholastic Initiative to eNGage Students in SAR (MUSINGSS) | $500,000 |
| Mease, Kristina | Business / Small Business Development Center | Fort Hays State University | University of Kansas Small Business Development Center - 2025 (Federal & State Funds) | $409,269 |
| Beck, Emily | Molecular Biosciences | National Institutes of Health | Understanding nuclear compensation to mitochondrial variation, dysfunction, and disease in a new evolutionary mutant model | $399,766 |
| Hansen, Amy | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Water Office | Planning for the future of farm pond wetlands under crop conversion and climate change | $326,360 |
| Sathyamoorthi, Shyam | Medicinal Chemistry | Unio Biotech Llc | Unio Biotech, LLC Collaboration with the University of Kansas | $229,300 |
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | Burns & Mcdonnell | Establishing Borehole Monitoring Capability Above Legacy Salt Caverns at Vigindustries/Mosaics Hutchinson, Kansas Facility | $130,990 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Virginia Tech | 2024: Collaborative Research: Can Human-Induced Turbidity Currents Enable Sustainability of Freshwater Reservoirs | $106,756 |
| Azuma, Mizuki | Molecular Biosciences | Alan B. Slifka Foundation | Identification of the novel drugs that target EWS haploinsufficiency in Ewing sarcoma | $100,000 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Early Impact Virginia Dba Institute For The Advancement Of Family Support Professionals | Institute Maintenance | $99,942 |
| Hardesty, Jo | Legal Services for Students | Internal Revenue Service | VITA Grant Project: FY2025 | $90,000 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | OK Aware East Year 5 | $52,067 |
| Knight, Logan | Social Welfare | Care Inc. | Recovery, Resilience and Thriving After Ritual Abuse | $50,335 |
| Pearson, Katelin | Biodiversity Institute | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service | Sharing plant materials for conservation and restoration through an online database using Symbiota | $44,694 |
| Roy, Anuradha | Biomedical Services Labs / High Throughput Screening | Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | Inhibition of Glioblastoma Invasion using CRK/CRKL-antagonist Peptides | $40,874 |
| Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Kicc-Ks Interdisc Carbonates Consortium | Experimental Investigation of Surfactant/Polymer Application for Enhanced Oil Recovery in the Cedar Creek Reservoir | $40,030 |
| Goldstein, Robert | Geology | Kicc-Ks Interdisc Carbonates Consortium | Diagenetic Controls on Reservoir Character of the San Andres Formation ROZ, Hobbs Field, Lea County, New Mexico | $39,869 |
| Mohr, Charles | Institute for Information Sciences | Systems Technology Research (Str) | HF Radar Analysis | $25,000 |
| Kirkpatrick, Allison | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | JWST-GO-05893: "COSMOS-3D: A Legacy Spectroscopic/Imaging Survey of the Early Universe" | $22,757 |
| Ko, Chien-Ho | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Allan Myers | 2025 Work Zone Geo-Fencing System Design | $20,000 |
| Kemp, Peggy | Life Span Institute | American Academy of Pediatrics | Act Early Ambassadors: State or Territorial Liaisons to CDCs, Learn the Signs. Act Early. Program | $13,000 |
| Hageman, Michael | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Biodiversity Institute | Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | Optimization of a Vaginal Lactoferrin Formulation for Use in Pregnancy | $12,349 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Office of The State Superintendent of Education | Test Administration and Educator Training for the Science DLM-AA (District of Columbia 2024-2025) | $10,416 |
| Cushing, Christopher | Clinical Child Psychology Program / Life Span Institute | Alfred I. Dupont Hospital For Children of The Nemours Foundation | Personalized Mobile Health Platform to Promote Physical Activity in Adolescents and Young Adults with Cystic Fibrosis | $10,014 |
| Herron, Creston | Music | New Faculty Research Development Award | Prairie Fire | $10,000 |
| Wade, Lacey | Linguistics | New Faculty Research Development Award | Challenging linguistic stereotypes through dialect experience | $9,988 |
| Zhou, Qunfei | Physics and Astronomy | New Faculty Research Development Award | Computational Design of Phase Change Materials for beyond von Neumann Computing | $9,977 |
| Rempfer, Melisa | Psychology | University of North Texas - Denton | Centers of Excellence | $5,236 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johnson, Michael | Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | Analytical Tools for Light-Initiated Zn2+ Signaling in Neurodegenerative Disease | $3,513,649 |
| Du, Heng | Pharmacology & Toxicology | National Institutes of Health | GOAT-mediated ghrelin deregulation and hippocampal pathology in Alzheimer's Disease | $2,782,030 |
| Bever, James | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Integrating ecological dilution and genetic resistance to predict pathogen transmission, dynamics and impact | $2,500,000 |
| Heggeness, Misty | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Political Economy Research Institute | Improvements in Measuring a 21st Century Care Economy | $1,171,397 |
| Francis, Lindsay | KU Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | 2025 Local Technical Assistance Program LTAP | $776,426 |
| Graham, Allie | Molecular Biosciences | National Institutes of Health | Plasticity and Nitric Oxide Signaling: Identifying the Novel Adaptive Mechanisms Associated with Response to Hypoxia | $747,000 |
| Forbush, Kelsie | Clinical Child Psychology Program / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Building Healthy Eating and Self-Esteem Together for University Students (BEST-U): A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of an mHealth Intervention for Binge-Spectrum Disorders | $715,516 |
| Myers, Suzanne | Life Span Institute | Kansas Board of Regents | KBOR Literacy Blueprint Research and Development | $616,670 |
| Caricato, Marco | Chemistry / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | National Science Foundation | Bimetallic Single-Site Heterogeneous Catalysts: A New Paradigm for Enhancing Reactivity in Olefin Metathesis | $602,669 |
| Beck, Darin | Law Enforcement Training Center | U.S. Department of Justice | FY24 University of Kansas Curriculum Integration Award | $500,000 |
| Beck, Darin | Law Enforcement Training Center | U.S. Department of Justice | FY24 Kansas Accreditation | $300,000 |
| Hageman, Michael | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | University of Virginia | Small Molecule ERG Inhibitors for Prostate Cancer | $206,871 |
| Li, Jian | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Transportation Research Board | A Novel Constrained-Layer Damper for Wind-induced Vibration Mitigation of High-mast Illumination Poles | $140,000 |
| Caricato, Marco | Chemistry / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | American Chemical Society | Understanding the Effect of Oriented External Electrical Fields on the Intensification of Phase Transfer Catalysis Reactions at a Liquid-Liquid Interface | $125,000 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Evaluating and Projecting Long-Term HAB and Water Quality Trends in Federal Reservoirs in the Neosho, Ninnescah, Walnut, Verdigris, and Marais des Cygnes Basins | $100,000 |
| Luo, Bo | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Planning: DCL-EPSCOR: SaTC Frontier: Exploring the Synergy Between Generative AI and Cybersecurity | $100,000 |
| Shomaji, Sumaiya | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Deep AI Encoded ECGs for Cardiovascular Health Prediction and Explainability | $57,723 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | University of Iowa | Joint Iowa-Kansas-Missouri-Nebraska Working Group for the Unification of pre-Illinoian Till Stratigraphy | $50,000 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | The Kansas Geological Society | Software Development for Kansas Electronic Data Integration | $50,000 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Project Eagle: Early Head Start | $49,263 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | American Economics Association | Survey and Focus Group Research in Support of AEA Co-Impact Design Grant | $38,500 |
| Kirkpatrick, Allison | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | JWST-GO-05407: "MEOW: The MIRI Early Obscured-AGN Wide Survey" | $34,362 |
| Butler Jr, James | Kansas Geological Survey | University of Nebraska - Lincoln | Clarifying the Drivers of Water-level Changes in the High Plains Aquifer in Western Kansas | $30,000 |
| Corson, Elizabeth | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Wichita State University | Plasmon-Enhanced Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction | $26,166 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | The Impact of Weight Loss on Alzheimers Disease Risk in Adults with Down Syndrome | $19,651 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | How big can you make a planet? Spectroscopic characterization of HD 206893B | $15,000 |
| Hoque, Tamzidul | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | NSF Student Travel Grant for 2024 Women in Hardware and Systems Security (WISE) Workshop | $10,000 |
| Talbott, Jennifer | Spencer Museum of Art | Environment And Culture Partners (Ecp) | T/RH parameters in care for museum collections on energy consumption, costs, and emissions | $10,000 |
| Deng, Shiguang | Mechanical Engineering | New Faculty Research Development Award | AI-Driven Design for Advanced Manufacturing-Material-Structure Systems | $9,999 |
| Knight, Logan | Social Welfare | New Faculty Research Development Award | Altruism as a Survivor-Generated Intervention for Reducing Complex Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Increasing Resilience | $9,999 |
| Song, Yu | Health, Sport & Exercise Science | New Faculty Research Development Award | Investigating single-leg backward hopping on knee mechanics for improved clinical assessments following anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions | $9,997 |
| Grube, Whitney | Social Welfare | New Faculty Research Development Award | Serious Emotional Disturbances (SED) and Medicaid Waiver Services: A Data Feasibility and Pilot Study | $9,987 |
| Norman, Lauren | Anthropology | New Faculty Research Development Award | Temporal trends in interregional interactions: Investigating the deep history of Van Tat Gwichin land use in northern Yukon, Canada | $9,985 |
| Presnell, Jason | Molecular Biosciences | New Faculty Research Development Award | Morphological and genomic approaches to understanding ctenophore gut development | $9,923 |
| Guria, Sankha | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | New Faculty Research Development Award | Automatic Program Synthesis with Correctness Guarantees | $9,562 |
| Wang, Han | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | New Faculty Research Development Award | NFRD: Building Interdisciplinary Collaborations for Privacy-Preserving Smart Communities | $8,214 |
| Orozco, Robin | Molecular Biosciences | New Faculty Research Development Award | Understanding the benefits of the commonly expressed, disease-causing mutation of PTPN22 | $5,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gardner, Sara | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | Kansas Preschool Development Grant Birth Through Five (PDG B-5) Renewal Grant 2024 | $3,297,177 |
| Martin, Susan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | New Mexico Public Education Department | NM STEM Ready Science Assessment | $2,632,188 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Nasa | XRP: OrCAS: Origins, Compositions, and Atmospheres of Sub-neptunes | $639,996 |
| Peterson, Dana | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Department of Wildlife And Parks | Geographic Information System (GIS) & Remote Sensing Support Services | $633,195 |
| Shogren, Karrie | Life Span Institute | Virginia Commonwealth University | Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Employment Among People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities | $290,000 |
| Cox, Owen | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Michigan Department of Labor Economic Opportunity | Michigan Impact Grant Program Analysis | $285,029 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wisconsin Department of Children & Families | FY25: Wisconsin Family Foundations Home Visiting Shared Measurements System | $212,984 |
| Colaco Morais, Ana | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Wise Institute for Sustainable Engineering | National Science Foundation | EPSCoR Research Fellows: NSF: Understanding the effects of tunable media on mass transport during catalytic conversion of polyolefins | $204,819 |
| Shoshani, Manar | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | LEAPS-MPS: Cooperative Transformations of N-Heterocycles with Heterometallic Complexes | $174,458 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Idaho State Department of Education | Idaho Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education (ID-AWARE) Year 5 | $142,128 |
| Barton, Jared | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Tfi Family Services | TFI Family Services ROM 2025 | $116,786 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Panchromatic Phase Curve of the Highest-S/N Hot Neptune | $115,000 |
| Baum, Kristen | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | University of Oklahoma | CHIRRP RCN: Building a Community of Practice for Co-Producing Resilient Socio-Ecological Systems in Grasslands | $55,773 |
| Grube, Whitney | Social Welfare | Everybody Matters | Evaluation Plan for Everybody Matters | $52,220 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Hospital Association | Estimating the Economic Impact of the Health Care Sector in Kansas and Kansas Counties | $50,000 |
| Liu, Gaisheng | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Resources Institute | Playa recharge characterization by nuclear magnetic resonance profiling | $50,000 |
| Miller, Jonathan | Institute for Bioengineering Research | Axioforce | 3D force sensing insoles for wearable, AI empowered, high-fidelity gait monitoring | $38,805 |
| Sutley, Elaina | Engineering Administration / Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Florida International University | Hurricane Loss Reduction for Housing in Florida | $30,000 |
| Lines, Brian | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | International Facility Management Association | Early Involvement of Facility Managers in Capital Projects | $25,000 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | JWST-GO-05959, "KRONOS: Keys to Revealing the Origin and Nature Of sub-neptune Systems" | $20,000 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Presto Geosystems | Experimental Evaluation of Geocell-stabilized Granular Bases | $12,500 |
| O'Reilly, Matthew | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Raajratna Metal Industries Ltd. | Evaluation of 2205 Stainless Steel Reinforcement | $3,600 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | State of New Jersey Department of Education | New Jersey DLM: 2024 - 2025 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Sci) + Additional Services | $2,022,705 |
| Wu, Judy | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | FuSe2 Topic 3: Co-design of sub-2nm wide-bandgap semiconductor memristors for neuromorphic computing | $1,825,740 |
| Leonard, Kevin | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Avium Llc | In Situ Separator Electrode Assembly (SEA) Formation with Non-Platinum Group Metal Catalysts for High Current Density Liquid Alkaline Electrolysis | $1,240,000 |
| Hartley, Meredith | Chemistry | National Multiple Sclerosis Society | Defining the role of cholesterol ester metabolism in remyelination | $835,102 |
| Shafer, Robin | Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Multi-modal sensory feedback mechanisms of fine and gross motor control in autism spectrum disorders | $795,743 |
| Bever, James | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Building and testing predictions of context dependence of synergistic benefits to plants from multiple symbionts | $690,103 |
| Kemp, Peggy | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environmt | Kansas Inservice Training System (KITS) - Part C tiny-k Infant/Toddler Program | $623,260 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas TRIO Training Program for Absolute Priority 1 (KU TTP-1) | $619,010 |
| Li, Jian | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Human-centered Steel Bridge Inspection enabled by Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence | $600,000 |
| Shogren, Karrie | Life Span Institute | University of Texas-Austin | Disentangling Intervention Practices Aligned with Motivational, Agentic, and Self Theories (MAST): An Integrative Meta-Analysis and Scoping Review | $517,506 |
| Lovell, Scott | Molecular Biosciences | Kansas State University | Small Molecule Protease Inhibitors against MERS-CoV and Coronaviruses of Pandemic Potential | $459,000 |
| Nash, Brooke | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Missouri Department - Elementary/Secondary Ed | Missouri Pathways for Instructionally Embedded Assessment (PIE) Year 3 | $432,875 |
| Hoque, Tamzidul | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: AHA! AI Hardware Adventures for High Schoolers | $354,936 |
| Wu, Judy | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Strain-mediated Ca diffusion and cation exchange for high-performance superconductor nanocomposites | $317,661 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Public Health | Iowa MIECHV Quality Improvement 2025 | $300,716 |
| Gould, Elizabeth | International Short Programs | University of Montana | FY24 Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Academic Fellowship | $285,325 |
| Hall, Jean | Life Span Institute | Washington State University | Disability Perspectives on the Adverse Health Effects of Medical Ableism | $273,780 |
| Rojas Villarreal, Raul | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | University of Texas - Dallas | Meeting the needs of young Hispanic autistic children: Developing a culturally and linguistically sensitive intervention to alleviate core social challenges | $261,856 |
| Newell, Bradley | School of Pharmacy / Pharmacy Practice | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program | $224,914 |
| Kindscher, Kelly | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | U.S. Forest Service | Restoring with culturally significant plants to strengthen food webs for pollinators and Tribal community well-being | $221,793 |
| Wu, Judy | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Atomically-engineered heterostructures for electronic readout of spin valley quantum states using plasmon decay | $220,807 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Wise Institute for Sustainabile Engineering | Washington University Saint Louis | Li-Air Redox Flow Battery Using Ionic Liquids | $216,671 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | A statewide inventory of the dominant reservoir sedimentation sources to inform targeted watershed conservation and upstream mitigation practices | $210,387 |
| Corson, Elizabeth | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Small-Scale, Transportable Electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis System using only Local Groundwater and Electricity | $171,969 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Early Impact Virginia | System enhancements in the delivery of HRSA funded MIECHV Innovation requirements | $144,622 |
| Rowe, Neil | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Human Services | FY25 1st Five Healthy Mental Development Initiative: Evaluation | $139,104 |
| Mazzotti, Valerie | Special Education / Life Span Institute | University of Oklahoma | ELEVATE: Equipping Learning, Empowering Vision, Achieving Transitions, and Engaging Families - A Doctoral Leadership Initiative | $122,851 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine: COBRE Phase II ADM Core | $116,281 |
| Barton, Jared | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Connecticut Department of Children & Families | Connecticut ROM FY25 | $108,690 |
| Cox, Owen | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kickapoo Tribe | Kickapoo TOR Return to Community Program | $100,000 |
| Lovell, Scott | Molecular Biosciences | Seattle Children's Hospital | Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease Renewal | $99,929 |
| Alexander, Warren | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Collins Aerospace | Industrial Scale Proof Engineering for Critical Trustworthy Applications (INSPECTA) | $97,500 |
| Lovell, Scott | Molecular Biosciences | Seattle Children's Hospital | Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease | $89,878 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Revenue | Open Records for Kansas Appraisers & Statewide Tax Units Database: (ORKA FY 25) | $85,637 |
| Zipper, Samuel | Geology / Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Quantitative Analysis of Trends in Kansas' Hydroclimatic Compound Extremes | $74,959 |
| Franz, Nico | Biodiversity Institute | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Specimen Management System Development and Updates for U.S. National Fungus Collections | $62,492 |
| Hanson Abromeit, Deanna | Music / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Frontiers: University of Kansas Clinical and Translational Science Institute | $50,000 |
| Dean, Evan | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | KS Department of Labor Equitable Transition Model | $36,641 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Nextera Energy | The Economic Impacts of Renewable Energy Developments on Jackson County, KS | $32,194 |
| Mantzavinos, Dionyssios | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Prairie Analysis Seminar 2024 - 2025 | $25,376 |
| McDonald, Margarethe | Speech-Language-Hearing /Life Span Institute | American Speech-Language-Hearing Association | Predicting experience-specific bilingual speech development using machine learning | $25,000 |
| Roy, Anuradha | Biomedical Services Labs / High Throughput Screening | Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | Development of Crk and CrkL inhibitors using the structure-function relationship study for glioblastoma treatment | $20,437 |
| Franz, Nico | Biodiversity Institute | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Sustaining the USDA Symbiota Portal and ARS Entomopathogenic Fungal Cultures Collection (ARSEF). | $18,475 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Selectquote | Exploring the Association between E-Broker Services and Consumer Choice | $16,804 |
| Fleming, Kandace | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Implementation of the New Pediatric Obesity Clinical Practice Guideline in Rural Families and Clinics: A Randomized Clinical Trial | $16,077 |
| Fazzino, Tera | Psychology / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Frontiers Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of Kansas | $10,887 |
| Fleming, Kandace | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Talk with Me Baby: Leveraging Well-Child Care to Enhance the Early Home Language Environment | $9,388 |
| Herrick, Imogen | Curriculum & Teaching / Achievement & Assessment Institute | American Psychological Association | Photovoice for Climate Change Education: Exploring Creativity and Cognitive-Emotional Responses Across the Americas | $8,500 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Geosynthetic Institute | Improving Effectiveness of Moisture Reduction in Unsaturated Soils with High Fines Contents Using Coated Wicking Geotextiles | $5,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas' Kansas City Kansas Public Schools GEAR UP (KCKPS GU) | $33,600,000 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Wise Institute for Sustainable Engineering | National Science Foundation | Center: NSF Engineering Research Center for Environmentally Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub (EARTH) | $30,936,910 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas' Kansas City Missouri Public Schools GEAR UP (KCMO GU) | $10,640,000 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Tennessee Department of Education | Tennessee DLM: 2024 - 2029 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math) + Additional Services | $5,614,149 |
| Holmstrom, Erik | Molecular Biosciences | National Institutes of Health | Uncovering the Biochemical Mechanisms of Riboregulatory Interaction Involving the Hepatitis C Virus 3 X RNA | $1,881,010 |
| Kelly, John | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Science Foundation | EDGE CMT: The genomic basis of male fitness variation in wild populations of Drosophila | $1,867,605 |
| Christine, Mary | Office of Faculty Affairs / Institute for Leadership Studies | U.S. Department of State | Study of the U.S.. Institutes for Young Women Leaders: | $1,638,692 |
| Mazza, Stephen | Law Administration | U.S. Department of Justice | University of Kansas School of Law Veterans Legal Support Clinic | $1,600,000 |
| Smith, Jon | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Geologic Mapping in Kansas for FY24 | $1,134,925 |
| Franz, Nico | Biodiversity Institute | University of Florida | iDigBio: Sustaining the digitization, mobilization, accessibility, and use of biodiversity specimen data in US. museum and academic collections | $1,025,894 |
| Ovchinnikov, Dmitry | Physics and Astronomy | U.S. Department of Energy | Engineering high-temperature magnetic quantum phases in atomically thin materials | $952,000 |
| Dalton, Hans | Molecular Biosciences | National Institutes of Health | Identifying New Therapeutics and Molecular Mechanisms in Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation | $731,550 |
| Bichelmeyer, Barbara | Provost Office / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | National Science Foundation | Louis Stokes new STEM Pathways Implementation - Only Alliance: Aligning STEM Trainees for Enterprising Research in Kansas and Nebraska | $700,000 |
| Johnson, Jennifer | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training | U.S. Department of Homeland Security | Fiscal Year 2023 Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program | $451,455 |
| Kindscher, Kelly | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Acquire data on ethnobotanical uses for inclusion in PLANTS. Multiyear effort that addresses some underserved groups, such as American Indians and their uses of plants on Tribal lands | $400,000 |
| Kalbas, James | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Trace element characterization of Permian evaporites | $399,208 |
| Yun, Heechul | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: SHF: Medium: Effortless Data Locality Through Near-memory On-the fly Data Transformation | $396,000 |
| Colaco Morais, Ana | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | National Science Foundation | Understanding the roles of Co2-tunable media on the hydrothermal deconstruction of poly(ethylene) terphthalate | $300,000 |
| Hayes, Melva | Life Span Institute | Kansas City, City of Missouri | Qualitative Community Evaluation of Violence Prevention Outreach Programs | $283,804 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Converting Inconsistent and Heterogenous Biomass and Municipal Solid Wastes Into De-Mineralized, and Uniform Feedstock for Catalytic Processing to Renewable Fuels and Chemicals | $276,446 |
| Gonzalez, Victor | Undergraduate Biology Program / Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: IRES: International Research Experiences on Tropical Plant-Pollinator interactions in a Changing World | $268,066 |
| Conrad, Kathryn | English / Hall Center for the Humanities | National Endowment For Humanities | AI & Digital Literacy: Toward an Inclusive and Empowering Teaching Practice | $216,218 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | State of Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services | Home Visiting Data Collection and Management - Nebraska (2024-2029) | $138,263 |
| Seo, Hyunjin | Journalism | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | Digital Learning Ecosystem for Justice-Impacted Communities | $129,786 |
| McCormick, Patrick | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Lockheed Martin | Mutal Coupling Wideband Array Calibration | $99,999 |
| Myers, Suzanne | Life Span Institute | Library of Congress | Citizen Journalism for All Students: Making Journalism in Action's Library of Congress resources more accessible and relevant for students with disabilities | $99,996 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Institute For The Advancement Of Family Support Professionals | Institute Maintenance | $99,931 |
| Yi, Richard | Economics / Life Span Institute | Rutgers University | An Examination of the Joint Contributions of Socioeconomic Disadvantage, Genetics, and COVID-19 on the Development of Delay Discounting and Substance Use Across Adolescence | $83,164 |
| Sathyamoorthi, Shyam | Medicinal Chemistry | Kansas State University | Illuminating Dark Antibiotics: A Novel Synthesis of Streptothricin F and First Total Synthesis of BD-12 and Albothricin | $76,500 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine: COBRE Phase II BME Core | $60,354 |
| Mills, Elisabeth | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | JWST-GO-05365, "Identifying, counting, and mapping YSOs in Sgr B2: our Galaxy's most massive molecular cloud | $57,111 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Illinois | All Our Kids Network University of Illinois IRIS Proposal (Year 7) | $50,094 |
| Counts, Jacqueline | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Health Foundation | Grant Writing Assistance to Kansas Non-profit Organizations 2024 | $49,500 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Transportation | Automated Crash Mapping (ACM) Process | $42,418 |
| Fry, Andrew | Health, Sport & Exercise Science / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Boston Children'S Hospital | Female Athlete Program and Jayhawk Athletic Performance Lab GRA Funding Agreement, DeLeo | $36,313 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department For Children And Families | Kansas Early Head Start Data Reporting System (DAISEY) FY25 | $32,318 |
| Johnson, Rachel | International Affairs Administration / International Programs | U.S. Department of Education | Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program | $25,033 |
| Kim, Hyunjoon | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Novel TLR7/8 agonists for bladder cancer immunotherapy | $25,000 |
| Mandel, Rolfe | Anthropology / Kansas Geological Survey | University of Oklahoma | A Geoarchaeological Assessment of the Canes Area and Newblock Park in Association with the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Graves Investigation | $22,807 |
| Johnson, Jennifer | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training | U.S. Department of Homeland Security | State Fire Training Systems Grant FY24 | $20,000 |
| Oakley, Berl | Molecular Biosciences | Kansas State University | Heterologous expression of Aspergillus fumigatus cryptic secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters | $20,000 |
| Gover, Carlton | Anthropology / Biodiversity Institute | U.S. Department of Interior-Bureau Reclamation | NK-KU Contract for Curation Services | $12,607 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Army Corp of Engineers | Advancing Tunnel Detection Capabilities, Accuracy, and Efficiency Through Target Specific Partnering of FWI with Computational Intelligence, Modal Separation, and Hardware/Software Enhancements | $15,168,571 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Education | Tech Assistance for Kansas CCLC Grantees | $1,928,419 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | New Hampshire Department of Education | New Hampshire: Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM) assessment program | $1,886,500 |
| Mack, Katya | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Institutes of Health | Gene regulation and the genetic basis of complex traits | $1,869,231 |
| Hileman, Lena | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: EDGE: CMT: Linking genomic variation to complex floral trait adaptation across a species boundary | $1,346,335 |
| Dean, Evan | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Education | Kansas Youth Transition Network: Strengthening Partnerships to Advance Transition and Employment Outcomes for Youth (Self-Determination Training) | $1,150,000 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Information Technology Office | DASC FY25-FY27 GIS Service Support Contract | $840,000 |
| Reuman, Daniel | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | National Science Foundation | Understanding impacts of climatic variability on distributions of species | $800,000 |
| Shoshani, Manar | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | CAREER: CO2 Reduction by Well-Defined Multimetallic Architectures with Earth-Abundant Metals | $772,515 |
| Lovell, Scott | Molecular Biosciences | Seattle Children'S Hospital | Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease Renewal | $623,836 |
| Fardad, Shima | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | DMR:TMRP: Transient Photonics in Optically Actuated Soft-Matter | $492,489 |
| Hoque, Tamzidul | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Medium: KIPPER: Learning-Guided Hardware IP Protection | $400,000 |
| Dean, Evan | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Education | Kansas Youth Transition Network: Strengthening Partnerships to Advance Transition and Employment Outcomes for Youth (Evaluation) | $367,943 |
| Thompson, William | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Expanding the Functionality and Accessibility of Software for Diagnostic Measurement | $347,371 |
| Gonzalez, Victor | Undergraduate Biology Program / Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Developing a research hub for automated bee identification, data sharing, and citizen science using computer vision | $342,866 |
| Olcott, Alison | Geology | Nasa | Interagency Personnel Agreement for Alison Olcott | $340,065 |
| Nguyen, Trung | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Molecular Structures and Electrochemical Activity of Supersaturated Electrolytes for High-Energy-Density Redox Flow Batteries | $249,999 |
| Siahaan, Teruna | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | Genentech, Inc. | Delivery, Retention, and Efficacy BDNF-VG1 and mAb-VG1 | $182,085 |
| Hale, Richard | Aerospace Engineering | Wichita State University | Kansas National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program 2024 | $171,450 |
| Dozier, Claudia | Applied Behavioral Science | Goodlife Innovations Inc. | Technical Assistance for GoodLife (2024-2025) | $160,296 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Tensar International Inc. | Rigid Pavement Testing with A Mechanically Stabilized Layer in the Large Box for Plate Load Testing | $120,000 |
| Lattin, Dana | Life Span Institute | Portland State University | Transition Coalition Self-Study (TCSS+): Enhancing a Team-Based Professional Development to Improve Outcomes | $110,494 |
| Hartley, Meredith | Chemistry | California Institute of Technology | Chemical approaches to understanding chondroitin sulfate glycosaminoglycans and their roles in brain plasticity and pathology | $109,242 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | KTRAN KU-5: Correlating driven pile resistance with drive point test and measurement-while-drilling data | $97,717 |
| Choi, Jae Young | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | University Of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Kansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence 5: DRPP Award | $91,221 |
| Stearns, Leigh | Geology / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: ClimPraxis: Creating a Climate Community of Praxis for Mid-Career Researchers | $86,008 |
| Parsons, Robert | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | KTRAN KU-7: Developing Specifications for Shale Breakdown | $79,881 |
| Parsons, Robert | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | KTRAN KU-10: Stabilizing Leaking Sand Behind MSE Walls | $77,481 |
| Tran, Dai | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Iowa State University | Guidance for Implementing Utility Investigations in Alignment with Project Delivery | $75,000 |
| Scouffas, Anthea | Lied Center | National Endowment For The Arts | KU Indigenous Cultures Festival and Powwow | $70,000 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Flood Extent Download Tool Development | $50,000 |
| Hageman, Michael | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | Continuum Educational Technologies Pbc | Testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) is the cornerstone treatment for male hypogonadism | $43,605 |
| Martin, Jeremy | Mathematics | Los Alamos Laboratory | Fellowship for Sebastian Henderson | $40,000 |
| Washburn, Jocelyn | Life Span Institute | Florida Gulf Coast University | Florida Professional Learning Support | $37,235 |
| Williams, Susan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Kansas Soybean Commission | Expanding Biodiesel Education and Utilization through the Kansas Biodiesel Consortium | $24,456 |
| Murray, Angela | Achievement & Assessment Institute | American Montessori Society | AMS Research Consulting Year 5 | $22,030 |
| Gover, Carlton | Anthropology / Biodiversity Institute | New South Associates | NWK Curation FY24-25 | $20,296 |
| Rudnick, Gregory | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Skeletons in the Cluster: Unveiling the Stellar Mass Backbone of z=1.6 Galaxies | $19,419 |
| Jongman, Allard | Linguistics | National Science Foundation | Doctoral Dissertation Research: Clear Speech Productions and Intelligibility Benefit for Native and Non-native Speakers and Listeners | $16,998 |
| Heggeness, Misty | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Fair Play Policy Institute | Standard Occupation Classification Federal Register Notice Letter Research | $15,000 |
| Ko, Chien-Ho | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Garney Construction | Garney Work Zone Geo-Fencing System Design | $15,000 |
| Sutley, Elaina | Engineering Administration / Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Stony Brook University | Planning: Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 Community-scale Testbeds to Accelerate Climate Adaptation and Disaster Reduction Research | $12,941 |
| Kindscher, Kelly | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | American Herbal Products Association | Oshá, Ligusticum porteri, Mapping and Co-Occurring Plants in Colorado National Forests | $6,000 |
| Appelman, Alyssa | Journalism / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Pennsylvania State University | Transparency effects: Audience perceptions of journalists ethics training disclosure | $5,000 |
| Lewis, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | U.S. Department of Energy | Particle Physics on the Plains 2024 | $5,000 |
| O'Reilly, Matthew | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Raajratna Metal Industries Ltd. | Evaluation of 2304 Stainless Steel Reinforcement | $3,600 |
| Choi, Jae Young | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Society For The Study of Evolution | Recombination rate variation in the Hawaiian Metrosideros | $2,500 |
| Zhong, Cuncong | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Role of Gut-Immune Interactions in Aging-Associated Bladder Cancer | $2,500 |
| Kang, Joonmo | Social Welfare | Korean American Social Work Educator Association | Community-Engaged Qualitative Inquiry: Exploring Individual and Systemic Factors in a Farmer Training Program for Refugees. | $2,000 |
| Song, Yu | Health, Sport & Exercise Science / Achievement & Assessment Institute | International Society Of Biomechanics In Sports | 2024 Internship Grant - International Society of Biomechanics in Sport (ISBS) | $2,000 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Kansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence 5: DRPP Mentor | $1,913 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences | National Institutes of Health | Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Awards (IRACDA) at the University of Kansas | $4,285,242 |
| Choi, Jae Young | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Institutes of Health | Molecular mechanisms and evolution of natural telomeric variation | $1,881,098 |
| Smith, Sean | Special Education / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Project AI-Score: Artificial Intelligence Scored Composition to Improve Outcomes for Written Expression | $1,875,000 |
| Washburn, Jocelyn | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Project iSTAR: An Integrated, Strategic Technology-based Adaptive wRiting Program | $1,875,000 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | Oklahoma DLM 2024 - 2025 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Sci) + Additional Services | $1,562,462 |
| Sikes, Benjamin | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | National Science Foundation | AccelNet-Implementation Phase 1: MICROBENet-Net: Multi-Institute Collaborative Research on BElowground plant-microbial interactions Network of Networks | $1,500,000 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Alfred P Sloan Foundation | Early Career Doctorates, Postdoctoral Researchers and the Scientific Enterprise | $1,030,093 |
| Byers, Kaela | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department For Children And Families | Prevention Grant Evaluation Families First Prevention Services Act | $849,188 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | New Mexico Public Education Department | New Mexico DLM: 2024- 2025 Operational/Testing (ELA, MATH, Sci) + Additional Services | $690,440 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Kansas State Plan for Assistive Technology | $471,111 |
| Medvedev, Mikhail | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Extreme Quantum-Electrodynamic Plasma Physics | $430,000 |
| Fang, Huazhen | Mechanical Engineering | U.S. Army | Brain-Inspired Human-Robot Cooperative Autonomy via Distributed Inference and Trust | $250,000 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | National Institutes of Health | Breadth and mechanism of Wolbachia-based inhibition of fungal infection in Drosophila | $242,843 |
| Hall, Jean | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Using the National Survey on Health and Disability (NSHD) to Assess the Experiences of LGBTQ+ People with Disabilities | $200,000 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Kansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (K-INBRE): Consolidated Projects | $174,420 |
| Schnitz, Alana | Life Span Institute | The Family Conservancy | Start Young | $144,839 |
| Li, Xiaoli | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | American Chemical Society | Confined Phase Behavior of Fluid Mixtures in Mesopores Using Gravimetric Microbalance and Calorimeter Measurements | $125,000 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Project Eagle: Early Head Start | $120,050 |
| Ortiz, Kelsey | Life Span Institute | State of Washington Office of Superintendent | OSPI Sped and Learning Options Online Learning and Students with Disabilities | $116,529 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Office of The State Superintendent of Education | DC DLM: 2024-2029 Operational/Testing (SCI) | $112,000 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | NASA | A3C RVs: Atmospheres, Activity, Architectures, and Compositions of Sub-Neptunes with KPF | $110,000 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Federal Communications Commission | Kansas Deaf Blind Equipment Distribution--Assistive Technology for Kansans 2024-25 | $109,079 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Liquid Biopsy using Tumor Specific Extracellular Vesicles for the Early Detection of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer | $99,919 |
| Kondyli, Alexandra | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Impact of Double Centerline Rumble Strips (CLRS) on Driver Behavior | $85,000 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Systems Technology Research (Str) | Radar Signal Processing | $60,000 |
| Treml, John | School of Professional Studies / KU Edwards Campus | Bioindustrial Manufacturing And Design Ecosystem | BioMADE BUILD Academic Challenge (BBAC) | $50,000 |
| Snow, Nancy | Philosophy / Hall Center for the Humanities | Wake Forest University | Support for leadership and character education programs | $46,040 |
| Xu, Liang | Molecular Biosciences / Molecular Graphics and Modeling Laboratory Core Lab | Continuum Educational Technologies Pbc | Heating up "cold" tumor: improve cancer immunotherapy by targeting RNA-binding protein HuR | $38,250 |
| Blum, Michael | Geology | Columbia University | From Source to Sink: Investigating Pleistocene Himalaya-sourced Megaturbidites from IODP Expedition 354 in the distal Bengal Fan using OSL/IRSL Dating | $30,000 |
| Franz, Nico | Biodiversity Institute | Arizona State University | National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON): Operations (Biorepository) | $27,947 |
| Hotze, Eileen | Undergraduate Biology Program / Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | MicrobioME: a CURE for Staphylococcus aureus | $22,950 |
| Pursel, Sydney | Spencer Museum of Art | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | "NDN-UITY", a Native Fashion Mural Installation by Mona Cliff | $20,000 |
| Takeyama, Akiko | Women Gender & Sexuality / Hall Center for the Humanities | Social Science Research Council | Consent in Sexual Violence: Cross-cultural Perspectives in Japan and the US | $20,000 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Jet Propulsion Lab - California Technology | Completing a Survey of Wide Companions in Short-Period Exoplanet Systems | $15,600 |
| Buzhardt Jr, Joseph | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Investigating the Challenging Eating Behaviors of Children with Autism at Mealtime | $14,071 |
| Kemper, Kate | Center for Service Learning | Neo Philanthropy | Ask Every Student Implementation Grant | $3,500 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shogren, Karrie | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Enhancing Secondary/Transition Outcomes Using Check and Connect with the Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction | $4,000,000 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Partnership to Build Teacher Capacity to Promote Early Language Learning in Infants and Toddlers with and at Risk for Disabilities | $4,000,000 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Missouri Department - Elementary/Secondary Ed | Missouri DLM: 2024-2025 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Sci) + Additional Services | $1,212,569 |
| Wendel-Hummell, Carrie | Social Welfare | Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Service | KDADS DSP Career Ladder | $999,924 |
| Leuschen, Carlton | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | Norwegian Polar Institute | Development of a RF & Microwave Radar for UAV Based Remote Sensing of Snow and Ice | $740,769 |
| Sutley, Elaina | Engineering Administration / Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | NSF-NFRF: Retreating from risk (RFR): Decision-supports for the equitable implementation of retreat to build climate resilience | $650,910 |
| Fewins, Joanna | Kansas Public Radio | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | KPR Broadcast Infrastructure Modernization | $547,000 |
| Thompson, Ward | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Direct Calculation of Activation Energies and Entropies for Chemical Dynamics | $470,465 |
| Davido, David | Molecular Biosciences | National Institutes of Health | Role of ICP0 Dimerization in Herpes Simplex Virus Pathogenesis | $430,406 |
| Noonan, Patricia | Center for Research on Learning / Life Span Institute | Arizona State Department of Education | AZ College & Career Competency (CCC) Team | $388,800 |
| Butler Jr, James | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | High Plains Aquifer Index Well Program | $318,500 |
| Noonan, Patricia | Center for Research on Learning / Life Span Institute | Missouri Department - Elementary/Secondary Ed | Missouri College and Career Competency Project | $268,686 |
| Brewer II, Joseph | Environmental Studies Program / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Purdue University | The Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership | $245,920 |
| Cizek, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | Community-Based Grants for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (CBCAP) | $244,488 |
| Cox, Kara | KU Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | Technical Services for the Kansas Rural Transit Assistance Program "RTAP" | $225,000 |
| Parsons, Sheena | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Douglas County Heritage Conservation Council | Open Spaces: Baldwin Woods Public Access Trails at the Rice Woodland | $169,698 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas State University | Harvest Activity | $152,504 |
| Bever, James | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Restoring Soil Health With Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: Improving Biodiversity And Soil Structure, Nutrients, And Microbes In Restored Lands | $119,880 |
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Data Science Core Facility | $114,750 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Agriculture | Kansas Base Flood Elevation Portal | $92,983 |
| Zipper, Samuel | Geology / Kansas Geological Survey | The Nature Conservancy | Phase 2: Unified Approach to Groundwater Modeling of Streamflow Depletion | $84,000 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Educational Credit Management Corporation (Ecmc) Group | ECMC FAFSA Student Support Strategy | $72,911 |
| Dieker, Lisa | Special Education / Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Central Florida | Preparation through Residencies and Enhanced Partnerships: LEAD PREP | $49,896 |
| Goldstein, Robert | Geology / Geology | Kicc-Ks Interdisc Carbonates Consortium | Diagenetic Controls on Reservoir Character of the Lower Cretaceous Habshan Formation, UAE (Abu Dhabi) and Oman | $39,067 |
| Tanis, Emily | Life Span Institute | OK Department of Human Services Children & Family | Black Feathers Evolution | $34,718 |
| Xu, Liang | Molecular Biosciences | Ohio State University | Functional and mechanistic delineation of HuR-Wisp1 signaling on myofibroblast activity | $34,427 |
| Hoque, Tamzidul | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative REU Site: TRUST: Training Research for Undergraduates in Secure and Trusted Systems | $30,000 |
| Dieker, Lisa | Special Education / Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Central Florida | Preparing Next Generation Special Education Leadership Scholars: LEAD NEXT | $28,640 |
| Heggeness, Misty | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Rti International | University of Kansas Subject Matter Expert Support for NLSY27 | $22,568 |
| Ko, Chien-Ho | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Allan Myers | Work zone geo-fencing system analysis and design | $20,000 |
| Han, Xu | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Professional Engineering Consultants | Lawrence Climate Change Tool | $15,908 |
| Cai, Hui | Architecture Design | Johnson County Department of Health And Environment | Connection our County Farmers Markets: An Action Plan for Johnson County, KS | $14,994 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas State University | Monitoring of Tuttle Creek Reservoir Water Injection Dredging Demonstration in the Kansas and Big Blue Rivers | $14,923 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences | Ku Center For Genomics | Genomic alterations in stressed C. elegans displaying synapse degeneration | $12,500 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | Ku Center For Genomics | Martina Dalikova post doc award: Small piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNA) in the evolution of the W chromosome in moths and butterflies | $10,000 |
| Holmes, Maja | School of Public Affairs & Administration | West Virginia University | WVU ADVANCE Oklahoma State University Change Agent Group Development for Transformation to Retain Diverse Faculty 2023, | $6,426 |
| Girard, Jeffrey | Psychology / Life Span Institute | Association For Psychological Science | An Open-source and Web-based Introduction to Generalized Linear Modeling | $5,000 |
| Devlin, John | Geology | Enbridge Energy, Limited Partnership | Comparison of shoreline seepage velocities in the lakebed at Unnamed Lake, near Bemidji, MN | $4,984 |
| Glor, Richard | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | Society of Systematic Biologists | Using next generation sequence data for species discovery and delimitation in a highly diversified Neotropical lizard genus (Sphaerodactylus) | $4,000 |
| Matsunaga, Kelly | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | The Botanical Society of America | 2024 Bill Dahl Graduate Student Research Award for Austin Nguyen | $1,500 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences | National Institutes of Health | Evaluating a powerful genetic mapping framework to discover lifespan extension genes in Drosophila | $617,074 |
| Elles, Christopher | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Broadband Two-Photon Absorption Spectroscopy for in situ Measurement and Characterization of Heterogeneous Samples | $507,760 |
| Perkins, Jonathan | Open Language Resource Center / Office of Research | Institute of International Education | 2024-2025: Building Language Capacity and Cultural Competency to Meet National Security Needs: The University of Kansas Language Training Center | $450,000 |
| Lubin, Terra | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Targeting microbiomes for optimal climate resilience: a case study of arbuscular mycorrhizae and drought resistance | $300,000 |
| Gould, Elizabeth | International Short Programs | Institute of International Education | 2024 Eight-Week Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Pre-Academic Training Program | $278,335 |
| Baker, Debra | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Sunflower Electric Power | Follow-up Assessment of the Great Bend Station (Sunflower Electric Power Corporation) Selenium Discharge on a Tributary of Dry Walnut Creek (Barton Co., KS) | $230,000 |
| Jiang, Yunfeng | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | On enumerative and tautological invariants defined by perfect obstruction theories | $194,000 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | DAISEY Training and Technical Assistance | $191,550 |
| Fischer, Christopher | Physics and Astronomy | Zenoleap Llc | STTR Phase I: High-sensitivity flexible quantum dots/graphene x-ray detectors and imaging systems | $86,323 |
| Pourladian, Bamdad | Mechanical Engineering | Honeywell | Polymer 3D Printed Presure Vessels, Compressive Lap Shear Test Fixtures, Modeling Fluid and Mixing Behavior, and Design and Additive Manuafacturing of Fluidic Channels for Synthesis | $58,830 |
| Murray, Angela | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wend Ii, Inc. | WEND Montessori Research Retreat 2024 | $50,000 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Corporation Commission | Kansas On-line Automated Reporting (KOLAR) project FY2025 | $40,000 |
| Bredikhina, Nataliya | Health, Sport & Exercise Science / Achievement & Assessment Institute | National College Athletic Assoication | Online Resilience: Empowering Student-Athletes in Navigating Social Media Feedback with Intervention Techniques | $35,000 |
| Desaire, Heather | Chemistry | Kansas Board of Regents | Workforce Development in Data Science: Supplement to KU's Big Data / Women's Health COBRE | $30,445 |
| Liu, Gaisheng | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Department of Interior-Bureau Reclamation | Innovative Use of the High-Resolution K (HRK) Logging for Optimizing Dewatering System Designs | $30,000 |
| Gunda, Nikhila | KU Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | 2024 KDOT Innovative Technologies Summit | $29,000 |
| Shomaji, Sumaiya | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | New Faculty Research Development Award | Towards Building a Research Program Focused on Tracking and Surveillance of Hardware and Human | $20,000 |
| Hanson Abromeit, Deanna | Music / Life Span Institute | University of California - San Francisco | Group parent-infant music-based intervention to support pre-linguistic language acquisition for infants at-risk for language delay due to social determinants of health | $19,981 |
| McDonald, Margarethe | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | New Faculty Research Development Award | The bilingual speech perception-production link and bilingual child speech database | $19,587 |
| Onasch, Whitney | Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Bar Association | Kansas Bar Association Survey of State Judges | $10,000 |
| Adams, Melinda | Indigenous Studies / Molecular Biosciences | New Faculty Research Development Award | Building Tribal Partnerships for Indigenous-led Cultural Fire Research in Kansas | $8,000 |
| Cook, Matthew | Design | New Faculty Research Development Award | Philodendron Animated Short Project | $8,000 |
| Gonzalez, Tiffany | History | New Faculty Research Development Award | Irma Rangel: the First Mexican American Feminist State Representative and Feminist Borderlands Politics | $8,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Desaire, Heather | Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | Leveraging Big Data to Improve Women's Health (BD-WH) | $11,361,418 |
| Siahaan, Teruna | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | A Novel Method to Enhance Drug Delivery to the Brain | $2,183,627 |
| Gardner, Sara | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | CPF Multi-Purpose Facility | $1,398,996 |
| Nash, Brooke | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Missouri Department - Elementary/Secondary Ed | Pathways for Instructionally Embedded Assessment (PIE) project | $1,019,889 |
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | Burns & Mcdonnell | Monitoring High Priority Salt Jugs near the Irsik & Doll Elevator, BNSF RR, V&S RR, and William Street with Supporting VSPs in Hutchinson, Kansas | $522,992 |
| Chan, Wai-Lun | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Realizing High Temperature Exciton Condensates at Organic/2D van der Waals Interfaces | $503,486 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Ierus Technologies, Inc. | Optimized Waveforms for X-band Missile-Defense Radars - Phase II | $450,000 |
| Kirkpatrick, Allison | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | MEGA Mass Assembly at Cosmic Noon: MIRI EGS Galaxy and AGN Survey -JWST-GO Proposal 03794 | $402,406 |
| Potter, Nicole | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Preserving and Inventorying Kansas Wireline Logs and Geochemical Analysis Related to Critical Minerals | $172,780 |
| Hansen, Amy | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | University of Minnesota | Robust incentive design for sustainable agricultural systems | $119,466 |
| Schrock, Steven | Engineering Administration / Transportation Center | Michigan State University | 2023 Work Zone Safety Grant | $102,234 |
| Changstrom, Jessica | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Building Capacity to Produce Highly Qualified STEM Teachers | $99,999 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Developing Procedures to Implement Advanced Technologies for Monitoring Deformations of Plastic Deformations of Plasitc Pipes under Loads | $92,973 |
| Hall, Jean | Life Span Institute | Brandeis University | Community Living Policy Center | $75,000 |
| Han, Xu | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Ashrae | 1934-TRP, A Survey Study on the Development and Application of Data-Driven Model Predictive Control in Buildings | $42,000 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Plus Power Resources LLC | The Economic Impacts of a Grid-Level Energy Storage Development on Kansas and Kansas Communities | $38,250 |
| Azuma, Yoshiaki | Molecular Biosciences | University of Minnesota | Control of Chromosome Segregation by DNA Topoisomerase II | $37,474 |
| Long, Haiying | Educational Psychology / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kipp Kansas City | KIPP Endeavor--Innovative Approaches to Literacy Project | $33,743 |
| Ercums, Kris | Spencer Museum of Art | Research GO | STREET NIHONGA: The Art of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani | $30,000 |
| Velasco, Francisca | Visual Art | Research GO | Reclaiming Home: Remembering the Topeka Bottoms | $30,000 |
| Corson, Elizabeth | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Research GO | Recovering Ammonia from Wastewater: Electrolyte Engineering for Selective and Efficient Nitrate Reduction | $29,998 |
| Peterson, Andrew | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | Research GO | Climate Change Impacts on Terrestrial Vertebrates of the Great Plains: Measuring Biodiversity Change on Continental Scales | $29,448 |
| Mohr, Zachary | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Research GO | Refocusing Election Administration Cost Research to 20/20: Understanding the Cost Structure and Cost Dynamics of Election Administration into the 2020s | $28,977 |
| Zhao, Hui | Physics and Astronomy | Research GO | Controlling Dipolar Excitons in Van Der Waals Materials for Future Excitonic Devices | $28,312 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Project Eagle: Early Head Start | $27,307 |
| Loecke, Terrance | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Research GO | Geochemical and microbial controls on methane emissions during variable hydrologic conditions | $25,289 |
| Harvey, Susan | Health, Sport & Exercise Science / Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Food is Medicine 2024 | $25,098 |
| Johnson, Mathew | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Conference: 2024 KUMUNU-ISU Conference one PDE, Dynamical Systems and Applications | $23,031 |
| Ferreira, Rosana | Molecular Biosciences | New Faculty Research Development Award | Bacterial interactions and their role in the skin microbiome composition | $20,000 |
| Jackson, Stephen | Educational Leadership & Policy Studies | New Faculty Research Development Award | The World in American Education, 1747-1900 | $19,500 |
| Roundy, Joshua | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Research GO | Hydrologic Stable States Analysis | $17,546 |
| Hall, Jean | Life Span Institute | Statewide Independent Living Council of Kansas | Statewide Independent Living Council of Kansas (SILCK) Needs Survey | $15,000 |
| Fazzino, Tera | Psychology / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | University of Kansas Clinical and Translational Science Institute | $10,887 |
| Agusto, Folashade | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | University of Missouri - Columbia | Geospatial Epidemiology and Disease Ecology of Tick-borne Diseases | $9,892 |
| Galvane, Linda | East Asian Languages & Cultures | New Faculty Research Development Award | Excremental History of Japanese Literature and Culture | $8,000 |
| Han, Xu | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | New Faculty Research Development Award | Phase change material integrated building envelope to enhance thermal resilience of buildings in vulnerable communities | $7,960 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hron, Janine | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Sunflower Foundation | Kansas Fights Addiction 2023 - Comprehensive Needs Assessment | $500,000 |
| Benson Jr, David | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | REU Site: A Summer Experience for Undergraduates Integrating Research, Education, and Career Development in an Interdisciplinary Environment | $465,000 |
| Zipper, Samuel | Geology / Kansas Geological Survey | Foundation For Food And Agriculture Research (Ffar) | Integrating on-farm solar arrays to enhance groundwater resources, produce energy, and diversify farm income | $451,845 |
| Koliba, Christopher | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Robert Wood Johnson | Examining the economic-security and health-equity impact on marginalized communities in the Kansas City, MO, metro region of state preemptive policy | $382,639 |
| Van Vleck, Erik | Mathematics | Office of Naval Research | Envisioning Data Assimilation for Adaptive Mesh Computational Models and Intermittency | $323,930 |
| Von Esenwein, Silke | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | KDHE Title V Needs Assessment TO #24067 | $299,768 |
| Mosconi, Matthew | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | Columbia University | Acute challenge and open-label trial of Pimavanszerin treatment for behavioral inflexibility in autism | $244,032 |
| Rodriguez-Morales, Fernando | Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | Honeywell | Development, Testing and Improvement of Components & Systems for Next-Generation Radar | $210,000 |
| Lane, Kathleen | Office of Research / Life Span Institute | University of Oregon | Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports VI | $200,000 |
| Hartley, Meredith | Chemistry | Albany Medical College | Role of a Fatty Acid Chaperone in Schwann Cell Myelination | $128,725 |
| Holt, Christina | Life Span Institute | Iowa Department of Human Services | FY24 Community Check Box Evaluation System for Partnerships for Success to Prevent Alcohol Misuse (FPS-PAM) PFS PAM | $87,946 |
| Stearns, Leigh | Geology / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | University of Michigan | RCN: GOLD-EN: Virtual Ice Community Engagement | $63,573 |
| Murray, Angela | Achievement & Assessment Institute | USD 497, Lawrence | Safe and Supportive Schools | $52,474 |
| Neuenswander, Bradley | Achievement & Assessment Institute | USD 500, Kansas City | Status Update Review for the Special Education Department at Kansas City USD 500 | $48,000 |
| Kindscher, Kelly | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Exalt Rd Llc | Echinacea Seed Yield Research | $34,326 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | The National Diabetes Prevention Program in Rural Communities | $30,306 |
| Azuma, Yoshiaki | Molecular Biosciences | Research Go | Role of SUMO modification in the structural organization of mitotic chromosomes required for accurate genome transmission in mitosis | $30,000 |
| Yi, Richard | Economics / Life Span Institute | Research Go | Neural Correlates of Art-Episodic Future Thinking (ArtEFT) | $30,000 |
| Rong, Panying | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | Research Go | Toward a Precision Medicine Approach to Improve the Assessment and Management of Progressive Motor Speech Disorders | $29,975 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Hospital Association | Estimating the Economic Impact of the Health Care Sector in Kansas | $27,000 |
| Raza, Muhammad | Child Language Program / Life Span Institute | Research Go | Family-Based Genetic Study of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) | $24,973 |
| Fleming, Kandace | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Modeling Longitudinal Reading Comprehension in Adolescence:Protective and Risk Factors | $18,802 |
| Paek, Bomin | Health, Sport & Exercise Science | The Academy of Korean Studies | Application of visual attention and emotional responses for sport viewership in virtual reality: cross-national research between Korean and US sport consumers | $13,200 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Jet Propulsion Lab - California Technology | A rare test of planet formation models: the obliquity of the 540-day transiting giant planet HIP 41378 f | $7,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mosconi, Matthew | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Mechanisms and biomarkers of disease progression in Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) | $3,107,586 |
| Martin, Susan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | New Mexico Public Education Department | New Mexico Assessment of Science Readiness | $2,683,109 |
| Seybold, Erin | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Health & Environmt | Kansas Ground Water Quality Monitoring Network | $1,006,000 |
| Baer, Sara | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | National Science Foundation | Predicting effects of interannual variability in climate an drought on plant community outcomes resilience and soil carbon using temporally replicated grassland reconstructions. | $780,658 |
| Butler Jr, James | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Airborne electromagnetic survey of Groundwater Management District No. 4 | $700,000 |
| Duncan, William | Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | NSF Convergence Accelerator Track K: Improving Water Quality and Equity through Sensor Data and Machine Learning Models | $650,000 |
| Mills, Elisabeth | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | CAREER: RACING - Resolving the Activity Cycle in the Nearest Galaxies | $482,550 |
| Tanis, Emily | Life Span Institute | Temple University | Tech Accelerator | $326,144 |
| Owen, Jonathan | Institute for Information Sciences | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Advanced Radar Waveforms & Processing | $284,690 |
| Buzhardt Jr, Joseph | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | OASIS Caregiver Training | $221,886 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas State University | Evaluation of KSU Project RAICES | $180,000 |
| Fazzino, Tera | Psychology / Life Span Institute | University of California - San Francisco | NSF Convergence Accelerator Track J: Network Of User-engaged Researchers building Interdisciplinary Scientific infrastructures for Healthy food (NOURISH) | $99,379 |
| Brady, Nancy | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Understanding how caregivers shape reciprocal communication with nonspeaking autistic children | $76,859 |
| Holt, Christina | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environmt | Sexual Violence Prevention Community-Based Valuation | $75,000 |
| Royon, Christophe | Physics and Astronomy | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Ultrafast FLASH radiation therapy dosimetry | $67,416 |
| Ahn, Yoonjung | Geography and Atmospheric Science | Florida State University | Understanding the Effects of Climate Change on Environmental Hazards in Overburdened Communities | $55,196 |
| Seo, Hyunjin | Journalism | Kansas Health Foundation | KU Center for Digital Inclusion | $50,000 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Oakland University | NRT-HDR: Using a Data Analytics Framework to Merge STEM and Entrepreneurial Training | $49,550 |
| Murray, Michael | Physics and Astronomy | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory | 2024 Jr. LPC Distinguished Researcher Award - Recipient: Georgios Krintiras (PI: M. Murray) | $48,617 |
| Tran, Dai | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Oregon State University | Guidelines for Digital Technologies and Systems for Remote Construction Inspection for Highway Infrastructure Projects | $47,916 |
| Thompson, Jomella | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | COBRE CEO Core: Implementation Science and Equity | $41,094 |
| Blakemore, James | Chemistry / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Chevron Phillips Chemical Company | Redox Behavior of Catalysts for Olefin Oligomerization 5: Joint Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Studies | $40,000 |
| Kirkpatrick, Allison | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Revealing our past faux PAHs: unveiling the hidden drivers of ISM conditions at cosmic noon JWST-GO-04192.003 | $26,073 |
| Hall, Amber | Psychology | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Developing a Representative Cohort to study Midlife Risk Factors for Alzheimers Disease | $10,554 |
| Mosley Jr, Nelson | KU Police Department | Kansas Department of Transportation | Impaired Driving Deterrence Project (IDDP): University of Kansas | $6,500 |
| Kemp, Peggy | Life Span Institute | American Academy of Pediatrics | Act Early Ambassador 2023-2024 | $6,000 |
| Thompson, Jomella | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | COBRE ETHICS Core: Implementation Science and Equity | $5,858 |
| Swinburne Romine, Rebecca | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Health Equity and Rural Education (HERE!) Clinical Trial | $5,785 |
| Drake, Phillip | English / Center for Service Learning | Campus Compact | 2023-24 Newman Civic Fellowship Mini-Grant | $1,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Maryland State Department of Education | Maryland DLM English Language, Mathematics and Science Alternative Assessment Test Administration and Consortium Services 2024 - 2026 | $3,160,296 |
| Dieker, Lisa | Special Education / Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | FLITE: STEM Coaching | $1,858,624 |
| Hron, Janine | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Sunflower Foundation | Kansas Fights Addiction 2023 - Comprehensive Needs Assessment | $1,500,000 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | National Science Foundation | The genetic basis of divergence in immune defense between species | $1,300,000 |
| Tuck, Kathleen | Special Education / Life Span Institute | University of Texas-Austin | Preparing Early Childhood Special Education Leaders for Diverse Settings (Project EARLY) | $1,250,000 |
| Batza, Catherine | Women Gender & Sexuality Studies | The Andrew W Mellon Foundation | Trans Studies at the Commons | $1,000,000 |
| Husic, Admin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Dynamic connectivity: a research and educational frontier for sustainable environmental management under climate and land use uncertainty | $609,734 |
| Hansen, Amy | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Nitrogen exchange and removal in riparian wetlands - the role of vegetation | $577,443 |
| Mease, Kristina | Business / Small Business Development Center | Fort Hays State University | University of Kansas Small Business Development Center - 2024 | $321,548 |
| Peelaers, Hartwin | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Computational Design of High-Performing V2O5 Cathodes for Zn-ion batteries | $288,878 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Transportation | Data Access and Support Center (DASC) GIS Mapping Integration - FY2024 | $261,872 |
| Snow, Nancy | Philosophy / Hall Center for the Humanities | Templeton Religion Trust | Intellectual Humility, Courage, and Religious Literacy and their Roles in Covenantal Pluralism | $252,062 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign | Technologies to Support Aging Among People with Long-Term Disabilities (TechSAge) | $198,554 |
| Bowman-James, Kristin | Chemistry | Sandia National Laboratories | Cryptand Molecular Cavities to Capture and Chemically Process CO2 | $111,200 |
| Koliba, Christopher | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | University of Vermont | CIROH: Modeling Community Trust: A Collaborative Approach to Scoping Water Forecasting Needs and NOAA Product Use in Indigenous Communities of Northeast Oklahoma | $95,060 |
| Hayes, Melva | Life Span Institute | Kansas City, City of Missouri | Evaluation Service For Aim4Peace Violence Prevention Program | $94,984 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | U.S. Army Corp of Engineers | Depth Resolved Algal Bloom Mapping (DRABM) Clinton Lake | $82,919 |
| Mazzotti, Valerie | Special Education / Life Span Institute | American Institutes For Research | Evaluation of Transition Supports for Youth with Disabilities | $70,394 |
| Kondyli, Alexandra | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Academy of Sciences | Traffic Capactiy Level of Service Adaptations and Usage | $55,000 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | American Society For Microbiology | Analysis of trends in the Microbiology workforce | $52,000 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | The Kansas Geological Society | Software Development for Kansas Electronic Data Integration | $50,000 |
| Schrock, Steven | Engineering Administration / Transportation Center | Kansas State University | Traffic Assistance Services for Kansas (TASK) Program FY24-26 | $40,000 |
| Johnson, Jennifer | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training | Kansas Division of Emergency Managment | Hazardous Materials Training to fire and emergency services personnel in the State of Kansas delivered through Kansas Fire & Rescue Training Institute 2023-2024 | $31,250 |
| Hardy, Saralyn | Spencer Museum of Art | Humanities Kansas | Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See | $30,000 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Clouds or Chemistry?: Pinpointing the drivers of variability across the L/T transition via the benchmark L/T binary WISE 1049AB (JWST2965) | $25,000 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Army Educational Outreach Program | Army Educational Outreach Program (UNITE) | $20,651 |
| Earle, Susan | Spencer Museum of Art | Racial Equity Fund | Highlighting the Work of Black, Indigenous, and Other Women+ of Color | $20,000 |
| Forbush, Kelsie | Psychology / Life Span Institute | Racial Equity Fund | The Development of a New Perinatal Eating Disorder Screening Tool for Black, Afro-Caribbean, and African American Individuals | $20,000 |
| Weiner Davis, Tadeo | Social Welfare | Racial Equity Fund | Stand Up KC Community Archive | $20,000 |
| Schwaller, Rachel | History | Racial Equity Fund | Unsettled Lawrence: Challenging Collective Memory of Settlement Through the Oral and Public Histories of Unhoused Populations in Lawrence | $16,000 |
| Azuma, Mizuki | Molecular Biosciences | Children'S Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | Identifying compounds that target vulnerabilities imposed by EWS haploinsufficiency to discover novel treatments for EWSR1 fusion-positive childhood sarcomas | $13,750 |
| Friis, Elizabeth | Mechanical Engineering | Love Lifesciences Llc | Testing of single-dose needle-based injection systems | $11,300 |
| Romanova, Ekaterina | Communication Studies | National Communication Association | Can Propaganda Reach Beyond Continents? Exploring Media Choice, Conspiracy Beliefs, and Support for Political Violence among the Russian-Speaking Diaspora in the U.S. | $9,600 |
| Holmes, Cheryl | Social Welfare | University Of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Lied Pre-Clinical Pilot | $5,000 |
| Yi, Richard | Economics / Life Span Institute | Psi Chi, The International Honor Society In Psychology | Cognitive Dysfunction Related to Substance Use Among Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence | $1,500 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Francis, Lindsay | Transportation Research Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | 2024 Local Technical Assistance Program LTAP | $660,000 |
| Fang, Huazhen | Mechanical Engineering | Tennessee Tech University | Second-life Battery in Mobile EV Charging Application for Rural Transportation (SMART) | $500,000 |
| Darwin, David | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute Education | Textured Expoxy-Coated Hooked and Headed Bars | $490,000 |
| Kondyli, Alexandra | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / Transportation Center | University of Nebraska - Lincoln | Mid-America Transportation Center for Transportation Safety and Equity (MATC-TSE) | $449,998 |
| O'Reilly, Matthew | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute Education | Corrosion Resistance of Damaged Textured Epoxy-Coated Reinforcement | $290,000 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Charles Stewart Mott Foundation | Kansas Statewide Afterschool Network (2023-2026) | $225,000 |
| Counts, Jacqueline | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Public Health | Iowa MIECHV Quality Improvement 2023 Amendment 8 | $198,237 |
| Darabi Konartakhteh, Masoud | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Texas A&M Research Foundation | Enhancement of PANDA-AP (Pavement Analysis using Nonlinear Damage Approach for Airports) | $181,986 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Institute for Sustainable Engineering | Iconium Engineering Company | Iconium Engineering Company Refrigerant Ionic liquid Separation (IEC-RISE) | $87,375 |
| Du, Heng | Pharmacology & Toxicology | Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center | Development and analysis of novel experimental platforms for Alzheimer's disease in Down syndrome | $76,081 |
| Miller, Jonathan | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Institute for Bioengineering Research | Axioforce | 3D force sensing insoles for wearable, AI empowered, high-fidelity gait monitoring | $75,093 |
| Hall, Jeffrey | Communication Studies | Harvard University | Institute for Rebooting Social Media (RSM) Visiting Scholars Faculty Fellowship | $75,000 |
| Dieker, Lisa | Special Education / Achievement & Assessment Institute | United Cerebral Palsy Of Central Florida Inc | PROJECT RAISE: Robots and Artificial Intelligence to Improve Social Skills for Elementary Students | $52,639 |
| Sutley, Elaina | Engineering Administration / Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Florida International University | Hurricane Loss Reduction for Housing in Florida | $51,047 |
| Miller, Jonathan | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Institute for Bioengineering Research | University of Missouri - Columbia | 3D force sensing insoles for wearable, AI empowered, high-fidelity gait monitoring (MBArC) | $43,094 |
| Bean, Alice | Physics and Astronomy | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory | 2024 LPC Distinguished Researcher Award for Recipient Dr. Alice Bean | $40,982 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Institute for Sustainable Engineering | Faraday Technology Inc. | Extraction and Utilization of Water and Gases from Icy Lunar Regolith | $35,000 |
| Buzhardt Jr, Joseph | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Foster Resource Center K-CART OASIS training | $34,045 |
| Mosconi, Matthew | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Institutional Career Development Core | $31,383 |
| Peterson, Andrew | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | North Dakota State University | CAREER: Rapid Phenotypic Divergence & Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 Signaling in a Widespread Songbird | $22,063 |
| Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Teverra Llc | Heat-Sweep Monitoring with Bubbled Water Seismic Imaging | $20,000 |
| Dieker, Lisa | Special Education / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Quabbin Regional School District | Quabbin Secondary Co-Teaching Initiative | $14,500 |
| Britt, Nicholas | Pharmacy Practice | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Drug abuse and HIV-associated pulmonary vascular injury | $10,386 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Eureka!: An Open-Source Pipeline for JWST Time-Series Observations AR-03273 - Brande | $10,091 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keshmiri, Shawn | Aerospace Engineering / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | Kansas State University | Applied Research and Innovation Scholarship for Engineering Students in Aerospace, AI, and Cybersecurity (ARISE) | $3,097,582 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | State of New Jersey Department of Education | New Jersey DLM: 2023 - 2024 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Sci) + Additional Services | $2,022,705 |
| Spencer, Trina | Life Span Institute | US Department of Education | Development of an Implementation Support Package to Install, Implement, and Sustain MTSS in Early Childhood Settings | $1,999,914 |
| Gardner, Sara | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | Kansas Workforce Registry | $1,068,555 |
| Matsunaga, Kelly | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Unearthing the conifer tree of death | $946,323 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Alion Science & Technology | Hangar4F | $326,711 |
| Loecke, Terrance | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Wichita State University | Testing the Effects of Cattle Grazing on CRP Grasslands in Short and Tallgrass Prairie Regions | $321,102 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wisconsin Department of Children & Families | FY24: Wisconsin Family Foundations Home Visiting Shared Measurements System | $210,756 |
| Luo, Bo | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Security Agency | GenCyber Summer Camp at the University of Kansas - Inspiring the Next Generation of Cyber Stars | $149,870 |
| Schnitz, Alana | Life Span Institute | The Family Conservancy | Start Young | $146,271 |
| Lattin, Dana | Life Span Institute | Community Care Corps The Oasis Institute | University of Kansas Transition to Postsecondary Education (KU TPE) Peer Navigators | $124,621 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | FY 2024 Early Head Start | $111,243 |
| Swinburne Romine, Russell | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Helen Keller Services For The Blind Inc | National Center for Deaf-Blindness (NCDB) Subaward FY24 | $109,984 |
| Barton, Jared | Social Welfare / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Tfi Family Services | TFI Family Services ROM 2024 | $106,596 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Pfizer Inc | Sustainable Continuous Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals with CO2 Expanded Liquids | $100,000 |
| Zipper, Samuel | Kansas Geological Survey | The Nature Conservancy | Streamflow depletion modeling in Sonoma County and Scott Valley, CA | $82,500 |
| Sutley, Elaina | Engineering Administration / Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Texas Tech University | Hispanic Serving Institutions Research Centers of Excellence, Texas Tech University’s “Center of Excellence in Climate Resilience and Equitable Housing” (CECREH) | $71,535 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Stem Next Opportunity Fund | Million Girls Moonshot: Innovator Grant | $55,000 |
| Liu, Lin | Mechanical Engineering | Kansas Soybean Commission | Performance-enabling soybean-derived materials for next-generation solid state lithium-sulfur batteries: FY 2024 | $50,000 |
| Whelan, Rebecca | Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Leveraging long-read sequencing and targeted proteomics to explain racial disparities in CA125 levels | $50,000 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Teachers and Students for Community-Oriented Research and Education: Linking Industry Partners, Faculty, and Teachers (TSCORE LIFT) | $37,286 |
| Francisco, Vincent | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | All of Us Research Program Heartland Consortium (AoURP-HC) | $36,117 |
| Fischer, Kenneth | Mechanical Engineering / Institute for Bioengineering Research | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Role of SPECC1L cytoskeletal protein in palate elevation dynamics | $28,426 |
| Peterson, Dana | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Americaview Inc. | StateView Program Development and Operations for the State of Kansas | $25,500 |
| Lyles, Lindsey | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | University Corp For Atmospheric | Climate Adaptation Outreach Support | $20,000 |
| Hashemi, Morteza | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | NSF Student Travel Grant for 2023 ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc) | $18,000 |
| Orr, Ronald | Spencer Museum of Art | Florida State University | CAREER: Quantification of the kinetic energy of particles in complex flows using magnetic particle tracking. | $16,434 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Office of The State Superintendent of Education | Test Administrator and Educator Training for the Science DLM-AA | $14,673 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Office of The State Superintendent of Education | DC DLM Additional Services 2023 - 2024 | $10,416 |
| Neuenswander, Bradley | Achievement & Assessment Institute | USD 497, Lawrence | USD 497 Portrait of a Graduate | $8,000 |
| Chen, Yi Chun | Journalism | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | REACH for equity in Southeast Kansas | $6,401 |
| Schulte, Scott | Environmental Studies Program / KU Edwards Campus | Mid America Regional Council | Resilient People, Resilient Places | $5,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stevens, Elizabeth | Special Education / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Examining the Efficacy of Aligning Core Content-Area Reading Instruction and Small Group Reading Intervention for Students with Reading Disabilities (Project ALIGN) | $3,789,119 |
| Naemi Jimenez, Pegah | Social Welfare | Administration For Children & Families | Kansas Bravely Raising & Activating Voices for Equity | $2,500,000 |
| Tanis, Emily | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | State of the States in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities | $2,249,797 |
| Dean, Evan | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Service | Employment First | $1,995,944 |
| Kurth, Jennifer | Special Education / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | KU Para to Teacher Project: Pathway to Low Incidence Teacher Endorsement | $1,195,566 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Tennessee Department of Education | Tennessee DLM: 2023 - 2024 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math) + Additional Services | $1,174,272 |
| Hugh, Maria | Special Education / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Project MounTaiN: Meeting The Need to Prepare Early Interventionists and Special Educators in Data-Based Instruction for Young Children with High Intensity Support Needs | $1,100,000 |
| McCormick, Patrick | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Enabling Spectrally Aware Cognitive RF Sensing | $1,000,000 |
| Walker, James | Geology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: GEO OSE Track 2: Developing CI-enabled collaborative workflows to integrate data for the SZ4D (Subduction Zones in Four Dimensions) community | $850,370 |
| Mazzotti, Valerie | Special Education / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Effects of CIRCLES on the Provision of Transition Services and Resulting Transition Outcomes for Students with Disabilities | $816,331 |
| Alexander, Perry | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Security Agency | Predicable and Scalable Remote Attestation | $722,322 |
| Colombo, John | Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Psychometrics and Predictive Validity of Infant Learning | $678,966 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Sandia National Laboratories | Joint SAR/GMTI using Agile Waveforms | $427,673 |
| Zipper, Samuel | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas State University | Increasing Water Productivity, Soil Carbon and Sustainability of Integrated Multi-Crop Systems Using Field Scale Research | $400,000 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Systems Technology Research (Str) | Smaller Targeting Radars with Integrated Performance Equivalency STRIPE | $358,831 |
| Naemi Jimenez, Pegah | Social Welfare | University of Texas-Austin | Evaluating THRIVE – A Promising Sexual Health Intervention for Youth in Foster Care and Child Welfare Professionals | $350,000 |
| Cizek, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | Building Early Childhood-Child Welfare Partnerships to Support the Well-Being of Young Children, Families, and Caregivers | $259,588 |
| Saraf, Anita | Molecular Structures Group / Mass Spectometry Laba | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Characterization of Environmental Effects on Mosquito Saliva Composition Using Mass Spectrometry | $250,000 |
| Gardner, Sara | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | SPARK-Accelerator | $247,540 |
| Kong, Kyoungchul | Physics and Astronomy | U.S. Department of Energy | Theoretical High Energy Physics in the Data-Driven Era | $220,011 |
| Symons, John | Philosophy / Institute for Information Sciences | National Security Agency | Vulnerabilities in the Social Attack Surface - How Undermining Norms Affects the Resilience of Critical Social Institutions | $201,852 |
| Long, Haiying | Educational Psychology / Achievement & Assessment Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Supporting the Whole Student: Identifying and Mitigating Barriers to Persistence for Underserved Post-Traditional Engineering Students | $200,041 |
| Alian, Mohammad | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Frameworks: Advancing Computer Hardware and Systems' Research Capability, Reproducibility, and Sustainability with the gem5 Simulator Ecosystem | $200,000 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Idaho State Department of Education | Idaho Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education (ID-AWARE) FY2024 | $154,006 |
| Rowe, Neil | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Public Health | FY24 1st Five Healthy Mental Development Initiative: Evaluation | $151,750 |
| Lovell, Scott | Molecular Biosciences | Seattle Children's Hospital | Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease Renewal | $128,200 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Lifting the Veil: An Open Source Haze Model for Exoplanet Atmospheric Characterization (JWST3207) | $122,959 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Revenue | Open Records for Kansas Appraisers (ORKA) | $114,000 |
| Barton, Jared | Social Welfare | Connecticut Department of Children & Families | Connecticut ROM FY24 | $101,404 |
| Miao, Yinglong | Medicinal Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | Probing Mechanisms of Polycystin-1 Regulation Using Peptide Modulators Designed by Sequence- and Structure-Based Learning | $98,865 |
| Johnson, Rachel | International Affairs Administration | U.S. Department of Education | Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program | $92,150 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | Oklahoma AWARE South | $81,765 |
| Fang, Huazhen | Mechanical Engineering | Pacific Northwest National Laboratories | Nexus of Controls and Communications for Battery Energy Storage Systems | $79,999 |
| Neuenswander, Bradley | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S.D 259, Wichita | Comprehensive Needs Assessment of WPS Strategic Plan | $78,000 |
| Azuma, Mizuki | Molecular Biosciences | Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | Identification of compounds that target vulnerabilities of Ewing sarcoma imposed by EWS haploinsufficiency | $72,000 |
| Chow, Connie | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wichita State University | Enhancing DEI through rich, street level data: How user stories can reveal gaps and alignment between stated goals and student experience | $60,000 |
| Lovell, Scott | Molecular Biosciences | Seattle Children's Hospital | Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease Renewal | $52,484 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | OK Aware East | $50,869 |
| Gudino, Omar | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Graduate Research Assistant Services on Nelson Projects | $50,200 |
| Hardesty, Jo | Legal Services for Students | Internal Revenue Service | VITA Grant Project | $48,610 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wichita State University | WSU Southeast Wichita GEAR UP Project Evaluation | $40,000 |
| Hugh, Maria | Special Education / Life Span Institute | University of Washington | Initial Efficacy Trial of a Group-Based Implementation Strategy Designed to Increase Teacher Delivery of Evidence-Based Prevention Programs | $38,839 |
| Dieker, Lisa | Special Education / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Taunton Public Schools | Taunton Co-teaching and Inclusive Practices | $37,000 |
| Lovell, Scott | Molecular Biosciences | Seattle Children's Hospital | Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease Renewal | $34,622 |
| Yi, Richard | Psychology / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Guided Episodic Future Thinking to Increase Physical Activity Adherence and Promote Healthy Brain Aging Among Mid-Life Adults | $31,186 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Assessment of sediment sources in the John Redmond reservoir watershed | $15,000 |
| McCannon, Gerald | Sociology / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Midwest Sociological Society (Mss) | How being both first generation and nontenure track impacts faculty sense of belonging in their departments, their mental wellbeing, and how they might navigate these challenges | $1,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kim, Taejoon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science /Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | NSF Convergence Accelerator Track G: Combating Vulnerability and Unawareness in 5G Network Security | $5,000,000 |
| Stevens, Elizabeth | Special Education / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Math Words: Vocabulary Support for Students Experiencing Difficulty in Mathematics | $1,994,476 |
| Davidson, Andrew | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science /Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Frameworks: Automated Quality Assurance and Quality Control in the StraboSpot Geologic Information System for Observational Data | $1,886,298 |
| Counts, Jacqueline | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Public Health | Iowa MIECHV Quality Improvement 2024 | $1,443,984 |
| Wang, Zhi | Aerospace Engineering | Department of Defense | GPU and Fast Storage Infrastructure for Massively Parallel Scientific Computing and Reduced Order Modeling | $746,258 |
| Cushing, Christopher | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Optimizing a Sensor-Enabled mHealth Intervention for Adolescents with Suboptimal Asthma Control | $727,641 |
| Smith, Jon | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Geologic Mapping in Kansas for FY23 | $605,817 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environmt | Kansas Inservice Training System (KITS)-Infant and Toddler Expansion Part C | $599,525 |
| Chan, Wai-Lun | Physics and Astronomy | U.S. Department of Energy | Minimizing the Energy Loss in Charge Separation via Spontaneous Exciton Heating | $592,044 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Kansas State Plan for Assistive Technology | $472,693 |
| Tamerler Behar, Candan | Office of Research / Institute for Bioengineering Research | National Institutes of Health | Peptide Enabled Tunable Restorative Interface | $467,008 |
| Orive, Maria | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences / Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | University of Florida | Invasive species as conduits for pathogen spillover between natural and agricultural ecosystems | $456,839 |
| Walker, James | Geology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: GEO OSE Track 2: Building a multiscale community-led ecosystem for crustal geology through the integration of Macrostrat and StraboSpot | $434,415 |
| Rudnick, Gregory | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: RUI: Tracing Galaxy Quenching in the Cosmic Web With Spatially-Resolved Star-Formation Maps | $375,211 |
| Husic, Admin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Can Human-Induced Turbidity Currents Enable Sustainability of Freshwater Reservoirs? | $350,000 |
| Slusky, Joanna | Molecular Biosciences / Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Institutes of Health | Plugging & Pulling-in: Tuning Peptide for ToIC to Overcome Antibiotic Resistance | $311,242 |
| Rojas Villarreal, Raul | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | University of Georgia | Developing Culturally Appropriate Language Assessment Tools for Low-income African American and Hispanic Young Children | $266,728 |
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | Exxonmobil Global Services Company | High Resolution Seismic Investigations of Rock Characteristics Associated with Subsidence | $254,003 |
| Besson, David | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: WoU-MMA: Ultrahigh Energy Neutrinos with the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland | $181,285 |
| Sereno, Joan | Linguistics | National Science Foundation | Yr. 2: NSF Intergovernmental Personnel Act for Joan Sereno | $177,697 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Revenue | 2023-2025 Kansas On-Line Automated Reporting (KOLAR) project | $122,000 |
| Tran, Dai | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Iowa State University | Evaluation and Selection of 3D Model Viewers for Construction Inspection | $110,000 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Evaluating Long-Term HAB Trends at Cedar Bluff and Clinton Reservoirs Kansas Water Office Contract Number #24-111 | $100,000 |
| Husic, Admin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Brigham Young University | Understanding Reservoir Sedimentation Sources and Economics in the Kansas River Basin for US Army Corps of Engineers Kansas City District | $100,000 |
| Sturm, Belinda | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Evonik | Evaluation of Pre-Oxidation of Evonik Wastewater to Improve Biological Nutrient Removal Performance | $91,068 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Agriculture | DWR Mobile WRIS | $79,794 |
| Hale, Richard | Aerospace Engineering | Wichita State University | Kansas National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program 2023 | $75,729 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Service | Program Coordination at Parsons State Hospital & Training Center: FY 2024 | $66,100 |
| Tran, Dai | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | K-TRAN KU 24-4: Implementation of Constructability Reviews for Highway Construction Projects in KDOT: Best Practices and Key Lessons | $65,820 |
| Ginsberg, Richard | Education Administration / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas State University | KBOR State-Wide Structured Literacy Mini-Grant | $52,000 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Exploring the Effects of a Community-based Functional Fitness Program on Frailty Among Adults Aging with Mobility Disability: A Pilot Study | $50,000 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Illinois | All Our Kids Network University of Illinois IRIS Proposal (Year 6) | $49,924 |
| Liu, Gaisheng | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Upper Arkansas River Corridor Water Quality Modeling | $35,000 |
| MacGonagle, Elizabeth | History / Hall Center for the Humanities | World Learning Inc . | Race, History, & Health in African and African Diasporic Communities | $34,999 |
| Koliba, Christopher | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Roskilde University | Governing Green Transitions (GOGREEN) | $32,821 |
| Moskovitz, Jackob | Pharmacology & Toxicology | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Moskovitz ADRC DPP 23-24: Oxidation of Apolipoprotein J and Alzheimer's disease | $25,000 |
| Johnson, Jennifer | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training | U.S. Department of Homeland Security | State Fire Training Systems Grant FY23 | $20,000 |
| Gudino, Omar | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Graduatete Research Assistant Services on KanAWARE | $15,716 |
| Parsons, Sheena | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Douglas County Heritage Conservation Council | "Here-ing" Cultural and Natural Heritage: Regenerating Indigenous Cultural Fire in Douglas County | $10,600 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences / Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Society For The Study of Evolution | Graduate Research Excellence Grant (GREG) R.C. Lewontin Early Award | $2,500 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shogren, Karrie | Life Span Institute | US Department of Education | Examining the Initial Efficacy of the Goal Setting Challenge App: Impacts of Technology-Delivered Self-Determination Instruction on Secondary/Transition Outcomes | $3,800,000 |
| Cartwright, Paulyn | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Science Foundation | RaMP: Making meaningful connections: Fostering the Integration of Biodiversity Patterns with Genetic Evolutionary Mechanisms (BioGEM) | $2,986,439 |
| Smith, Sean | Special Education / Achievement & Assessment Institute | US Department of Education | Project iKNOW: Increasing Knowledge and Natural Opportunities With Social Emotional Competence | $2,496,841 |
| Bean, Alice | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Particle Physics Research with the CMS Experiment | $1,781,502 |
| Murray, Michael | Physics and Astronomy | US Department of Energy | Precision hot and cold QCD with CMS and EPIC | $1,500,000 |
| Swinburne Romine, Russell | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Maryland State Department of Education | Maryland DLM: 2023 - 2027 Social Studies + Additional Services | $1,151,989 |
| Seo, Hyunjin | Journalism / Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | University-Community Partnerships Broadening Technology Education for Women Transitioning from Incarceration | $1,086,078 |
| Potter, Nicole | Kansas Geological Survey | US Geological Survey | Preserving and Inventorying Kansas Geologic Data, Documents, Samples, and Aerial Photographs; and Surveying Drill Hole/Core Holdings Relating to Critical Mineral Resources, FY 2023 | $782,969 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | New Mexico Public Education Department | New Mexico DLM: 2024 Operational/Testing (ELA, MATH, Sci) + Additional Services | $690,440 |
| Subramanian, Jaichandar | Pharmacology & Toxicology | Columbia University | GLO1/AB-mediated mitochondrial and synaptic injury in Alzheimer's disease | $648,592 |
| Lovell, Scott | Molecular Biosciences | Seattle Children's Hospital | Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease Renewal | $619,733 |
| Hashemi, Morteza | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | IMR: MT: AirScope: A Versatile and Programmable UAV Platform for End-to-End Cellular Network Measurements in Rural Environments | $600,000 |
| Wu, Judy | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Design and Synthesis of Atomically Tunable Memristors | $349,999 |
| Wu, Huixuan | Aerospace Engineering | National Science Foundation | Evaluating the complexity of unsteady turbulent flows using excess entropy | $319,971 |
| Hernandez, Daniel | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | A study of hypersurface singularities | $220,000 |
| Schneider, Blair | Kansas Geological Survey | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: FieldSafe - Changing the Culture of Fieldwork in the Geosciences | $214,819 |
| Alian, Mohammad | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: EAGER: AI-Assisted Just-in-Time Scaffolding Framework for Exploring Modern Computer Design | $200,000 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Institute for Sustainable Engineering | Midea Company | Heat Pump Testing with New Low-Global Warming Refrigerants | $181,948 |
| Dozier, Claudia | Applied Behavioral Science | Goodlife Innovations Inc. | Technical Assistance for CLO (2023-2024) | $151,473 |
| Wang, Jingxin | Medicinal Chemistry | Parkinson's Disease Foundation | Treatment of Parkinson's disease using alpha-synuclein RNA degraders | $150,000 |
| Chao, Haiyang | Aerospace Engineering / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | Georgia State University | SCC-IRG Track 1: Smart and Safe Prescribed Burning for Rangeland and Wildland Urban Interface Communities | $142,232 |
| Sutley, Elaina | Engineering Administration / Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Headwaters Economics | Data and design needs for improving the wildfire and flood resistance of manufactured housing | $127,076 |
| Houts, Michael | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Information Network of Kansas | Developing the nested hexagon framework as a multiscale annotate geospatial index for Kansas datasets | $118,362 |
| Milakhina, Daria | Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | ROI Study for Kansas Works Office of Registered Apprenticeship | $101,900 |
| Johnson, Michael | Chemistry | Pinnacle Technology Inc | Functionalized Multi-Modal Tetrode Arrays for Real-Time, Site-Specific Neurochemical Monitoring | $98,641 |
| Chao, Haiyang | Aerospace Engineering / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Planning: FIRE-PLAN:High-Spatiotemporal-Resolution Sensing and Digital Twin to Advance Wildland Fire Science | $96,000 |
| Gudino, Omar | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Graduate Research Assistant Services on Davis/Bakula Projects | $81,325 |
| Besson, David | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: WoU-MMA: Askaryan Radio Array: A world-class, forward-looking, and dynamic neutrino astrophysics observatory from 100 PeV | $78,043 |
| Peterson, Andrew | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | US Department of Agriculture | Cooperative Agreement to Support Aquaculture Risk Assessment | $75,000 |
| Feldman, Kelli | Education Administration / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Board of Regents | Teacher Education Competitive Grant: Expanding the World of Teaching through Enhanced Teacher Education Pathways | $72,106 |
| Heggeness, Misty | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | United-We | Report on Child Care Licensing in Kansas | $57,556 |
| Scouffas, Anthea | Lied Center | National Endowment For The Arts | KU Powwow & Indigenous Cultures Festival (ICF) | $55,000 |
| Francis, Lindsay | Transportation Research Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | Road Safety Assessments RSA for locals | $50,191 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center | Exploring the effects of a community-based functional fitness program on frailty among adults aging with mobility disability: A pilot study | $50,000 |
| Miller, Jonathan | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | 3D force sensing shoe insoles for wearable, remote, high-fidelity gait monitoring | $50,000 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Service | Active Treatment Training Program-KNI | $35,000 |
| Gard, Sarah | Dole Institute of Politics | West Virginia University | The American Congress Digital Archives Portal Project | $29,855 |
| Martin, Jeremy | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Conference: 2023-2025 Kansas Mathematics Graduate Student Conference | $24,772 |
| Kelly, Kara | Biodiversity Institute | New South Associates | NWK Curation FY23-24 | $18,451 |
| Rogers, David | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Aleut Community of Saint Paul Island | Biodiversity Assessment of Ephemeral Freshwater Pools on St. Paul Island | $14,117 |
| Mazzotti, Valerie | Special Education / Life Span Institute | University of North Carolina Charlotte | National Technical Assistance Center on Transition for Students and Youth with Disabilities | $10,475 |
| Curran, John | Audit, Risk & Compliance / Provost Office | University Risk Management And Insurance Association Inc. | Be the Change: Funded Internship 2023 | $7,500 |
| Kindscher, Kelly | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | American Herbal Products Association | Oshá, Ligusticum porteri, Mapping and Co-Occurring Plants in Colorado National Forests | $6,000 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE DRPP Mentorship Award | $1,913 |
| Bever, James | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | BII New Roots for Restoration: Arbuscular mycorrhizal mediation of drought stress in intermediate wheatgrass domestication | $851 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas Upward Bound (KU-UB) | $2,400,725 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Delaware Department of Education | Delaware DLM: 2023-2026 Operational/Testing (ELA, MATH, Sci) + Additional Services | $1,781,087 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas Veterans Upward Bound (KU-VUB): 2023 - 2028 | $1,547,547 |
| Li, Fengjun | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Griffiss Institute | Fortifying the Cyber and Electromagnetic Frontlines: Establishing a Virtual VICEROY Institute in Midwest | $1,499,983 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Missouri Department - Elementary/Secondary Ed | DLM Operational Testing Agreement: Missouri FY 2024 | $1,212,569 |
| Stearns, Leigh | Geology / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | Heising-Simons Foundation | Impact of ice shelf estuaries on ice shelf stability | $599,412 |
| Koch, Lisa | Transportation Research Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | Technical Services for the Kanas Rural Transit Assistance Program "RTAP" | $256,245 |
| Colella, Jocelyn | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | Society For Conservation Biology | Reconstructing Lahontan cutthroat trout population history to inform future management strategies in Summit Lake, NV | $226,848 |
| Liu, Lin | Mechanical Engineering | Wichita State University | 23-2023EPSCoR-0022, Physics-Informed-AI Enabled Smart Electrospinning of Nanofiber Memberanes Towards In-Space Manufactuing | $185,000 |
| Hoque, Tamzidul | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Wright State University | National Pathway to Success (NPS) | $126,841 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | K-TRAN 24-5: Evalaution of Portland Limestone Cement-Treated Subgrade Soils and Bases in Kansas | $125,373 |
| Shogren, Karrie | Life Span Institute | American Institutes For Research | Evaluation of Transition Supports for Youth with Disabilities | $113,486 |
| Farber, Rachael | Chemistry | American Chemical Society | Selective Ethanol Dehydrogenation over Oxide-Supported Metal Nano-Islands | $110,000 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Federal Communications Commission | Kansas Deaf Blind Equipment Distribution--Assistive Technology for Kansans | $109,293 |
| Royon, Christophe | Physics and Astronomy | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Ultrafast FLASH radiation therapy dosimetry | $100,142 |
| Koliba, Christopher | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | University of Vermont | Enhanced Forecast Design Through Experimental Gaming and Social Impact Assessment of Connected River and Floodplains | $95,807 |
| Darabi Konartakhteh, Masoud | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Development of a database on surface free energy of asphalt binders to evaluate moisture susceptibility of asphalt mixtures used in the state of Kansas | $92,761 |
| Wilson, Blake | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Maintain and expand Kansas-based data services to the NGWMN, 2023 - 2024 | $90,374 |
| Johnson, Jennifer | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training | U.S. Department of Homeland Security | AFG Assistance to Firefighters | $87,877 |
| Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Geomechanical and mineralogical properties of limestone samples from Kansas - Joint project with KSU | $81,189 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | K-TRAN KU 24-I: Aggregate Specification to Reduce Dust and Improve Sustainability of Local Rock-surfaced Roads | $79,989 |
| Weinsztok, Sarah | Life Span Institute | University Of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | A prospective behavioral economic analysis of alternative sources of reinforcement for hazardous alcohol use | $76,680 |
| Parsons, Robert | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Development of a Geotechnical Asset Management System for Slopes | $59,832 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Kansas Real-Time Flood Mapping Tool Development: SPARK Efficiency and Modernization | $50,000 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University Of Missouri - Columbia | Raise Awareness of Afterschool OST in the Greater Kansas City Metro Area (Modules) | $48,000 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Functional training for overweight/obese adults with mobility-related disabilities | $46,255 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Post Doctoral Award: Jessamyn Perlmutter | $38,250 |
| Kong, Kyoungchul | Physics and Astronomy | U.S. Department of Energy | Theoretical Particle Physics in the Data-Driven Era | $33,000 |
| Flinders, Jennifer | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Prairie Band | Prairie Band Potawatomie Nation Native Connections Evaluation (Y3) | $31,085 |
| Zhang, Jie | Linguistics | National Science Foundation | Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Representation and Processing of Vowel Contrasts in Brazilian Portuguese and English | $18,354 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Jet Propulsion Lab - California Technology | Follow-up and Validation of TESS Planets with Keck AO Imaging IX - Polanski | $16,500 |
| Cushing, Christopher | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Florida | Personalized Mobile Health Platform to Promote Physical Activity in Adolescents and Young Adults with Cystic Fibrosis | $15,329 |
| Cox, Owen | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department For Children And Families | Head Start Collaboration Office Needs Assessment 2023 | $14,705 |
| Rudnick, Gregory | Physics and Astronomy | Jet Propulsion Lab - California Technology | Revealing Gas Flows in High-Redshift Cluster Galaxies - PID 96/2023B_N201 | $13,750 |
| Orr, Ronald | Spencer Museum of Art | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | Here-ing | $9,500 |
| Daley, Dorothy | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | University of Massachusetts Medical School | JCOIN Coordination and Translation Center | $9,200 |
| Mosconi, Matthew | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | American College of Medical Genetics Genomics | Midwest Autism Patient-Centered Research Consortium (MARC) | $8,723 |
| Moyle, Robert | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | Kansas Department of Wildlife And Parks | Century-scale Changes in Terrestrial Vertebrate Faunas of Eastern Kansas | $8,500 |
| Goebel, Frank | Anthropology | Rust Family Foundation | Early Human Settlement of Southern Patagonia: A Proposal for Rescue Excavations at the Paleoindian Locality of La Gruta 1, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina | $7,971 |
| Kindscher, Kelly | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | U.S. Forest Service | Mapping populations of Osha (Ligusticum porteri) in the Rio Grande National Forest, Colorado | $5,000 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Geosynthetic Institute | Effects of Moisture and Fine Contents on Wicking Geotextile-Soil Interface Strengths | $5,000 |
| Gallagher, Philip | Health, Sport & Exercise Science | American College of Sports Medicine Foundation | 2023-2024 Student Research Grant Award | $1,500 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Office of Naval Research | Waveform-Diverse RF Capabilities | $2,186,643 |
| Wendel-Hummell, Carrie | Social Welfare | Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Service | Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Workforce Training | $2,009,797 |
| Farrell, Mark | Medicinal Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | Glycoscience Tools and Therapeutics | $1,912,500 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | FY 2024 Oklahoma DLM Operational Testing | $1,562,142 |
| Gaumer Erickson, Amy | Center for Research on Learning / Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Education | SPDG Evaluation | $750,000 |
| Colella, Jocelyn | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: PurSUiT: Systematic viral discovery through structured search of host phylogeny | $737,127 |
| Byers, Kaela | Social Welfare | Kansas Department For Children And Families | Family Resource Center Evaluation | $499,370 |
| Dunn, Robert | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Planar Capillary Electrophoresis | $472,804 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | U.S. Department of Energy | Recycling of End-of-Life Solar Panels using Near-critical Fluids and Ozone | $433,333 |
| Ewing, Mark | Aerospace Engineering / Office of Research | Federal Aviation Administration | A68 - Validate Small Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Detect and Avoid (DAA) Well-Clear Requirements | $400,000 |
| Buzhardt Jr, Joseph | Life Span Institute | Univ of North Carolina At Chapel Hill | Effects of Implicit Bias on Children's Early Outcomes | $335,761 |
| Shontz, Suzanne | Engineering Administration / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: CDS&E: An Experimentally Validated, Interactive, Data-enabled Scientific Computing Platform for Cardiac Tissue Ablation Characterization and Monitoring | $283,686 |
| Bigelow, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | National Science Foundation | COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Social-Emotional Analysis of the Language Environment (SEAL): Key Word & Phrase Spotting in Early Childhood Care Settings | $174,362 |
| Tanis, Emily | Life Span Institute | OK Department of Human Services Children & Family | Accessibility of Wearables | $156,213 |
| O'Reilly, Matthew | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Effects of Carbon Sequestration on Corrosion of Reinforced Concrete in Kansas | $151,000 |
| Wagner, Margaret | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Building better bioinoculants: Using experimental evolution to improve the efficacy of a plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria | $120,000 |
| Choi, Jae Young | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE DRPP:Genetics and developmental functions of natural telomere length variation | $114,750 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Standardizing Rigid Inclusions for Transportation Projects | $113,317 |
| Billings, Sharon | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas State University | Collaborative Research: How roots, regolith, rock and climate interact over decades to centuries - the R3-C Frontier | $111,093 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine | $110,056 |
| Paden, John | Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | British Antarctic Survey | Integration of a CRESIS Radar Depth Sounder on a Windracers UAV | $107,882 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Missouri - Columbia | Raise Awareness of Afterschool | $100,000 |
| Kondyli, Alexandra | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | K-TRAN KU: 24-3: Creating Effective Graphic Changable DMS Messaging | $85,000 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | City of Lawrence | Water quality monitoring in Clinton Lake, Kansas with a water quality buoy | $78,196 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | Effectiveness of Automated Pavement Restriping Systems - Phase II | $70,000 |
| Herda, Trent | Health, Sport & Exercise Science / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | A comprehensive and non-invasive assessment of skeletal muscle in adolescents with single ventricle circulation | $61,269 |
| Hefty, Phillip | Molecular Biosciences | Inez Jay Fund | A comprehensive and non-invasive assessment of skeletal muscle in adolescents with single ventricle circulation | $61,269 |
| Xu, Liang | Molecular Biosciences | Inez Jay Fund | Improving Breast Cancer Immunotherapy by Targeting RNA-Binding Protein HuR | $60,000 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Liquid Biopsy using Tumor Specific Extracellular Vesicles for the Early Detection of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer | $52,676 |
| Fehr, Anthony | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Investigating approved therapeutics for their ability to inhibit the SARS-CoV-2 ADPribosylhydrolase: 2022-2023 | $50,000 |
| Murray, Angela | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wend Ii, Inc. | WEND Montessori Research Retreat 2023 | $50,000 |
| Seybold, Erin | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Groundwater Quality Patterns, Trends, and Drivers in GMD2 | $45,000 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Corporation Commission | Kansas On-Line Automated Reporting (KOLAR) project FY2024 | $40,000 |
| Thompson, Jomella | Applied Behavioral Science / Center for Service Learning | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Frontiers: University of Kansas Clinical and Translational Science Institute | $37,680 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Service | Active Treatment Training Program-Parsons State Hospital-FY24 | $35,000 |
| Beard, Kenneth | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | Leakey Foundation | Early primate evolution in Big Bend National Park, Texas | $30,000 |
| Logan, Randall | School of Professional Studies / KU Edwards Campus | Director of National Intelligence | Collaborative Cybersecurity Research Initiative: Fostering Innovation and Empowering Students in the IC CAE Kansas Consortium | $30,000 |
| Von Esenwein, Silke | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Horizons Mental Health Center | Mental Health Awareness Training Project Evaluation | $24,442 |
| Chao, Haiyang | Aerospace Engineering / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | Wichita State University | High-Fidelity System Identification and Simulation of UAS/UAM Vehicles | $19,272 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Presto Geosystems | Experimental Evaluation of Geocell-stabilized Granular Bases | $15,000 |
| Unruh, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Frontiers: University of Kansas Clinical and Translational Science Instituter | $13,167 |
| Neuenswander, Bradley | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Greenbush Southeast Kansas Education Service | SEKESC School District Strategic Planning (Effort Only) | $12,500 |
| Francis, Lindsay | Transportation Research Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | Purchase of Pavement marking Retroflectometer | $10,000 |
| Hileman, Lena | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | The Botanical Society Of America | 2023 Kaplan Dissertation Award in Comparative Morphology: Evolution of bee-exclusionary corolla width differences in Penstemon | $10,000 |
| Seo, Hyunjin | Journalism | Google, Inc. | Digital Skills for Women with Criminal Justice Involvement | $10,000 |
| Zeigler, Zachary | University Press of Kansas | City of Lawrence | University Press of Kansas NEA ARP Subgrant | $10,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day, Stuart | Edwards Campus | Johnson County, Kansas | Johnson County Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds Subrecipient Grant Agreement – Workforce Development | $1,166,670 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | Health Resources & Service Administration | Building Capacity of Early Childhood Providers to Promote Language Learning of Infants and Young Children from Underserved Communities | $900,000 |
| Salandrino, Alessandro | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Air Force Office of Scientific Research | Coherent Space-Time-Varying Electromagnetic Structures | $450,335 |
| Huang, Cheng | Aerospace Engineering | Air Force Office of Scientific Research | Generalizable Data-Driven Modeling Framework for Understanding and Modeling Turbulent Combustion | $450,000 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | National Science Foundation | REU SITE: IDEA Incubator for Porous Materials: Integrating Discovery, Engineering and Art | $399,892 |
| Cizek, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | WellBeing Mapping CBCAP Program | $378,685 |
| Noonan, Patricia | Center for Research on Learning / Life Span Institute | Missouri Department - Elementary/Secondary Ed | Missouri Post-Secondary Success Project/ Social-Emotional Learning for All | $298,421 |
| Gould, Elizabeth | International Short Programs | Institute of International Education | 2023 Eight-Week Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Pre-Academic Training Program | $288,877 |
| Buzhardt Jr, Joseph | Life Span Institute | University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill | Validation of an Outcome Measure of Early Social-Communication for Young Children with ASD | $280,566 |
| Chen, Geng | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Stability, uniqueness and existence for solutions of hyperbolic conservation laws and nonlinear wave equations | $234,974 |
| Billings, Sharon | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Plant community composition, diversity, and precipitation effects on carbon retention and loss in grassland soils | $225,000 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Institute for Sustainable Engineering | Hudson Technologies | Improving Flammability Testing of Refrigerant Mixtures | $209,776 |
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Bioinformatics Core Facility | $153,794 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Trihydro Corporation | Technical Support to prepare remote sensing plan in support of the Russell, Kansas site | $150,000 |
| McCormick, Patrick | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Lockheed Martin | Dual-function Radar/Comms Methods and Robust Calibration Approaches | $150,000 |
| Allgeier, Alan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Pfizer Inc | Evaluating the influence of pharmaceutical feed impurities and solvents on Pd catalyzed flow hydrogenation | $140,000 |
| Rojas Villarreal, Raul | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | University of Georgia | The Role of Fathering in the Language Development of Young, Low-Income African American and Latino Children | $130,464 |
| Brumberg, Jonathan | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | Wispr Ai | Silent Speech Data Collection: Testing and Analysis | $92,611 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Illinois Action For Children | Illinois Community Systems Statewide Supports (CS3) IRIS | $65,000 |
| Wang, Zhuo | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | University of Georgia | The activation of benzoxaborole prodrug AN15368, a clinical candidate for Chagas disease | $61,386 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Summer Scholars yr 10 | $54,540 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | Digital Equity Asset Mapping | $53,230 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Undergraduate Research Office (URO) | $53,025 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Board of Regents | Jobs and Degree Requirements for 2030:An Expanded Analysis of Projections from Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce | $40,690 |
| Rosa-Molinar, Eduardo | Pharmacology & Toxicology | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | P30 CATCH UP Above Accrual Goal Administrative Supplement Request | $38,250 |
| Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Kicc-Ks Interdisc Carbonates Consortium | Experimental investigation of High-Pressure, High-Temperature Methane/Co2 Adsorption for Organic-Rich, Tight/Ultra-Tight Carbonates | $36,086 |
| Cushing, Christopher | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | Type 1 Diabetes Rapid Learning Lab | $34,088 |
| Scott, Erik | Russian, Eastern European & Eurasian Studies | Michigan State University | Science, Art and Faith: Architectural Heritage and Islam | $30,000 |
| Brown, Rafe | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | Research Go | Decolonization through Digitization: Enabling Free and Equitable Access to KU's Historically Unique and Globally Significant Reptile and Amphibian Collection with the Emerging Field of Museum Genomics | $29,548 |
| Koch, Lisa | Transportation Research Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | 2023 KDOT Innovative Technologies Summit | $25,196 |
| Davido, David | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Role of ICP0 Dimerization in Herpes Simplex Virus Pathogenesis | $25,000 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | KINBRE Star Trainees yr 10 | $21,210 |
| Murray, Angela | Achievement & Assessment Institute | American Montessori Society | AMS Research Consulting Year 4 | $20,017 |
| Yun, Heechul | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Wichita State University | Anytime Perception and Control for Intelligent and Safe Advanced Air Mobility | $19,272 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | The Impact of Weight Loss on Alzheimers Disease Risk in Adults with Down Syndrome | $17,294 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Campus Coordinator 2023-2024 | $15,150 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forbush, Kelsie | Psychology / Life Span Institute | Department of Defense | Assessment of Eating Disorder and Comorbidity Risk and Resilience in a Nationally Representative Sample of Recent Military Enlistees | $4,230,958 |
| Bigelow, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Kansas Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program | $664,840 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Medicaid Equipment Exchange | $628,420 |
| Tunge, Jon | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | CAS: Enabling synthesis through small molecule liberation | $575,000 |
| Iqbal, Asif | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Agriculture | Kansas Online Water Use Report - CY2023-2025 | $224,200 |
| Allgeier, Alan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Danisco Usa Inc. | Development of Process for Derivatization of Engineered Polysaccharides through Enzymatic Polymerization Through Carboxylic Acids to the Corresponding Engineered Polysaccharide Esters | $206,724 |
| Choi, Jae Young | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | University of Nevada, Las Vegas | The Genetic Basis of Local Adaptation Across an Island Adaptive Radiation | $96,884 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine: Biomedical Engineering Core | $63,863 |
| Rojas Villarreal, Raul | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | Momentous Institute | Collaborative Research Study on Bilingual Language and Self-Regulation Development | $63,615 |
| Girard, Jeffrey | Psychology / Life Span Institute | Massachusetts General Hospital | Multimodal Dynamics of Parent-Child Interactions and Suicide Risk | $59,446 |
| Diener, Alexander | Geography and Atmospheric Science | University of Connecticut | The Middle of Somewhere: Place Attachment and the Geographies of Being | $50,000 |
| Harvey, Susan | Health, Sport & Exercise Science / Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Food is Medicine | $43,294 |
| Sturm, Belinda | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Evonik | Biological Nutrient Removal testing | $42,467 |
| Garstka, Teri | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department For Children And Families | Kansas Early Head Start Data Reporting System (DAISEY) FY24 | $37,425 |
| Jiang, Yunfeng | Mathematics | Research Go | Gromov-Witten Counting Surface Invariants | $30,000 |
| Mahajan, Kirti | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Research Go | Assessment of In-Vehicle Human Machine Interfaces (HMI's) Based on Cognitive-Visual Load | $30,000 |
| Schnitz, Alana | Life Span Institute | Research Go | Development of the Blended Early Literacy, Language, and Social-Emotional Intervention (BELLS) for Preschool Teachers | $30,000 |
| Wang, Jingxin | Medicinal Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Research Go | Development of an Oral Stimulator of Interferon Genes Agonist for Cancer Treatment | $30,000 |
| Teator, Aaron | Chemistry | Research Go | Cyclopolymer Materials Enabled by Spring-Loaded Polymerization | $29,993 |
| Snow, Nancy | Philosophy / Hall Center for the Humanities | Research Go | The Meaning and Importance of "Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself" in Today's World | $29,978 |
| Myers, Suzanne | Life Span Institute | Research Go | Writing with Purpose: Improving Adolescent Writing Achievement through a Focus on Authentic Purpose | $29,299 |
| Sturm, Belinda | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Research Go | Investigating the Role of Microplastics as Carriers of Antibiotic Resistance into the Environment | $29,228 |
| Sabarwal, Tarun | Economics | Research Go | Control and Spread of Information in Decentralized Networks | $27,457 |
| Ovchinnikov, Dmitry | Physics and Astronomy | Research Go | Electric Field Control of Magnetism in Two-Dimensional Quantum Materials | $27,447 |
| Johnson, Christopher | Music | National Endowment For The Arts | Impact of the Quality of Music Programs on the Overall School Climate in High Schools | $27,136 |
| Hileman, Lena | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Research Go | Connecting Genome to Phenome in the Evolution of Trait Complexity | $26,433 |
| Dixon, Dan | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | K-Inbre Institutional Funds | Omics profiling and biological function of plasma-derived extracellular vesicles in colorectal cancer | $25,000 |
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Research Go | Dissecting the Genetic Basis of Longevity in Drosophila | $17,306 |
| Moyle, Robert | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | American Museum of Natural History | Collaborative Research: All Birds: A Time-scaled Avian Tree From Integrated Phylogenomic and Fossil Data | $9,998 |
| Fischer, Kenneth | Mechanical Engineering | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Single Stage Surgical Intervention for Treatment of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury | $4,187 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smith, Adam | Pharmacology & Toxicology | National Institutes of Health | Neurocircuit of Partner-seeking Following Social Loss | $3,213,479 |
| Heggeness, Misty | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Alfred P Sloan Foundation | The Care Board: A Dashboard on, for, and about Care Work and Caregivers in the U.S. | $761,886 |
| Cordell, Stacy | Academic / Professional Programs | Kansas Department of Transportation | KDOT Transportation Safety Conference 2023 - 2027 | $755,266 |
| Alian, Mohammad | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Near-Memory Datacenter Network | $533,095 |
| Douglas, Justin | Molecular Structures Group | National Science Foundation | Helium Recovery Equipment: Acquisition of Helium Recovery and Liquefaction Hardware for the University of Kansas | $500,000 |
| Mosconi, Matthew | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Neurodegenerative Mechanisms of Motor, Executive, and Memory Decline in Females with Fragile X-associated Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome (FXTAS) | $465,831 |
| Liu, Zhipeng | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Exact Formulas of the KPZ Fixed Point and the Directed Landscape | $296,885 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas State University | RESPETAME: Reimagining Educational Systems by Practicing Equity and Translanguaging and Accessing Multiliterate Experiences | $217,263 |
| Soberon, Jorge | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | OPUS: A Computational Theory of Biodiversity | $139,114 |
| Yi, Richard | Psychology / Life Span Institute | Johns Hopkins University | An Examination of the Joint Contributions of Socioeconomic Disadvantage, Genetics, and COVID-19 on the Development of Delay Discounting and Substance Use Across Adolescence | $75,332 |
| Rogers, David | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Lyme Disease Tick Surveillance | $75,063 |
| Roediger, David | American Studies | Huntington Library, Art Collection & Botanical Gardens | Avery Distinguished Fellowship for Academic Year 2023-2024 | $75,000 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | The SPACE Program: a Sub-neptune Planetary Atmosphere Characterization Experiment (17192) | $43,626 |
| Gane, Brian | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Illinois-Chicago | Collaborative Research: Improving Multi-dimensional Assessment and Instruction: Building and Sustaining Elementary Science Teachers' Capacity Through Learning Communities | $40,123 |
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | Burns & Mcdonnell | Ground Truth Testing and Correlation of Seismic Interpretation and Borehole Sampling at Mosaic's Legacy Well Field in Hutchinson, Kansas | $37,006 |
| Du, Heng | Pharmacology & Toxicology / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | University of Kansas Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (KU ADRC) | $28,620 |
| Chen, YiYang | Music | Racial Equity Fund | World Music: A Portrait Series of Modern Composers | $20,000 |
| Duncan, Philip | Linguistics | Racial Equity Fund | Language ideology and the dilution of Black student voices through "proper grammar." | $20,000 |
| Nguyen, Cambrey | Pharmacy Practice | Racial Equity Fund | Promoting health equity through cultural competency: Exploring the patient perspective of community pharmacists delivering care to racially diverse individuals with disabilities: KUEA#37083 | $20,000 |
| Pursel, Sydney | Spencer Museum of Art | Racial Equity Fund | Indigenous Fashion Show & Exhibition: Spencer Museum of Art. | $20,000 |
| Pourladian, Bamdad | Mechanical Engineering | Honeywell | Predictive Model for Silicone Pad Failure and Predicting Uniaxial Compression of Foam Using Computer Vision | $18,399 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brady, Nancy | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | Georgia Institute of Technology | Discovering novel predictors of minimally verbal outcomes in autism through computational modeling | $1,049,667 |
| Counts, Jacqueline | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | Kansas Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five Planning Grant 2 | $1,030,522 |
| Garstka, Teri | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | Kansas Early Childhood Integrated Data System Distinct Count of Children Project | $800,000 |
| Nash, Brooke | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Missouri Department - Elementary/Secondary Ed | Pathways for Instructionally Embedded Assessment (PIE) project | $618,232 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | Porous absorbent-coated geotextile to enhance water drainage from soil | $549,996 |
| Flinders, Jennifer | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Minnesota Department of Education | Minnesota Interagency Community Voice & SenseMaking Project | $361,763 |
| Pu, Bing | Geography and Atmospheric Science | National Science Foundation | Understanding the formation and impacts of warm-season trans-Atlantic African dust extremes | $360,739 |
| Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Sun Specialty Products Corporation | Extraction of Rare Earth Elements Using Polyelectrolytes and Polyelectrolyte Complexes | $300,000 |
| Beach, James | Biodiversity Institute | Natural History Museum | Integrating Geoscience Collections into Specify Software | $223,711 |
| Stearns, Leigh | Geology / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: NSF Directorate for Geosciences-Natural Environment Research Council: Understanding surface-to-bed meltwater pathways across the Greenland Ice Sheet using machine-learning and physics-based models | $191,868 |
| Hron, Janine | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Greenbush Southeast Kansas Education Service | Kansas Department of Education Summer Enrichment Program Sunflower Summer 2023 | $176,620 |
| Li, Xianglin | Office of Research / Mechanical Engineering | Wichita State University | Multifunctional Ceramics for Space and Aircraft Applications | $149,999 |
| Colella, Jocelyn | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Ranges: Building Capacity to Extend Mammal Specimens from Western North America | $146,497 |
| Schnitz, Alana | Life Span Institute | The Family Conservancy | FY23 Start Young Agreement | $144,839 |
| Wallisch, Anna | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Investigating the Challenging Eating Behaviors of Children with Autism at Mealtime | $119,564 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | Oklahoma Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education South | $113,522 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Project Eagle: Early Head Start | $104,295 |
| Sturm, Belinda | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Water Research Foundation | Engineering the Reactive Surface of Aerobic Granular Systems for Contaminant and Pathogen Removal | $100,000 |
| Rowe, Neil | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environmt | Kansas Universal Home Visiting Expansion Project Evaluation (TO 23039) | $75,000 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Flood Mapping Tool Development: Real-time Flood Mapping for Kansas | $60,000 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | OK Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education East | $55,714 |
| Walker, James | Geology | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Technical Support: Kansas | $55,000 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Urban Action Partner Technology Pilot | $49,655 |
| Hageman, Michael | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | NCI Cancer Center Support Grant - Lead Development and Optimization Core (Hageman) | $41,776 |
| Yi, Richard | Psychology / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Guided Episodic Future Thinking to Increase Physical Activity Adherence and Promote Healthy Brain Aging Among Mid-Life Adults | $40,568 |
| Hardesty, Jo | Legal Services for Students | Internal Revenue Service | Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Grant Project | $39,100 |
| Mills, Elisabeth | Physics and Astronomy | National Radio Astronomy Observatory | National Radio Astronomy Observatory Student Observing Support (SOS) Proposal to support Benjamin Moreau | $31,354 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Project Eagle: Early Head Start | $29,664 |
| Fazzino, Tera | Psychology / Life Span Institute | University of California - San Francisco | NSF Convergence Accelerator Track J: Network Of User-engaged Researchers building Interdisciplinary Scientific infrastructures for Healthy food (NOURISH) | $24,344 |
| Roy, Anuradha | Biomedical Services Labs / High Throughput Screening | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | NCI Cancer Center Support Grant - Lead Development and Optimization Core Core (Roy) | $24,018 |
| Christine, Mary | Office of Faculty Affairs / Institute of Leadership Studies | Kansas State University | Kansas Leadership Center Research Initiative | $20,765 |
| Shen, Zuchao | Life Span Institute | University of Florida | Optimal Design of Experimental Studies Investigating Mediation Effects With Individual-Level Mediators | $18,305 |
| Mosconi, Matthew | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Evaluating sleep disturbances in adolescents and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities | $15,787 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Tensar International Inc. | Experimental Investigation of Interaction between InterAx Geogrid Products and Granular Fill | $15,000 |
| Choi, Jae Young | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Center For Genomics | Recombination Rate Variation and Evolutionary Mechanisms of Adaptive Radiation | $13,909 |
| Brown, Rafe | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | KU Center For Genomics | KUgenoTypes: democratizing access to the University of Kansas' globally and historically significant herpetological collection with museum genomics | $13,063 |
| Koch, Lisa | Transportation Research Center | South Carolina Department of Transportation | South Carolina Department of Transportation Dispatching and Scheduling Training 2023 | $11,193 |
| Lattin, Dana | Life Span Institute | University of North Carolina Charlotte | National Technical Assistance Center on Transition for Students and Youth with Disabilities | $10,000 |
| Scouffas, Anthea | Lied Center | City of Lawrence | KU Indigenous Cultures Festival Artists | $10,000 |
| Talbott, Jennifer | Spencer Museum of Art | City of Lawrence | Gallery Reopening Community Promotion | $10,000 |
| Wang, Jingxin | Medicinal Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Small molecule enhances anti-cancer tumor radiosensitivity via activation of the cGAS-STING pathway | $10,000 |
| Orozco, Robin | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Center For Genomics | Pro-autoimmune allele of PTPN22 influences immune cell functions during virus infection | $9,900 |
| Wallisch, Anna | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Investigating the Challenging Eating Behaviors of Children with Autism at Mealtime | $7,000 |
| Friis, Elizabeth | Mechanical Engineering | Directsync Surgical, Llc | Spinal Fusion Implant with Integrated Fusion Progression Diagnostic Capability | $6,000 |
| Liu, Gaisheng | Kansas Geological Survey | Vista Clara, Inc. | Dynamic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Logging Technologies for High-Resolution Measurement of Hydrogeologic Properties and Soil Response | $5,100 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | A Resource for the Genetic Dissection of Complex Traits | $2,962,239 |
| Mohammadi Dehcheshmehi, Sahar | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Critical Minerals in Pennsylvanian black shales of the U.S. Midcontinent | $975,000 |
| Vakser, Ilya | Computational Biology | National Science Foundation | U.K. Research and Innovation/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council - NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences: Modeling of protein interactions to predict phenotypic effects of genetic mutations | $930,155 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Institute for Sustainable Engineering | Booz, Allen, Hamilton, Inc. | Design of an Ammonia + Ionic Liquid Development Test Rig | $638,638 |
| Hutchison, Justin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Thermal proteome profiling applications for in-situ bioreporting of contaminant degradation in soils | $441,172 |
| Lequesne, Remy | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Electric Power Research Institute, Inc | Advanced Nuclear Reactors: Bond under High Temperature | $395,000 |
| Carta, Judith | Life Span Institute | University of Iowa | Evaluate effectiveness of Waterloo Central School District & Council Bluffs Central School District Exploratory Projects & Statewide Implementation of Specially Designed Instruction, Including Evaluation of the State Identified Measure of R | $374,052 |
| Schoeneich, Christian | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Novartis Pharma Ag | SubQ Application of Biologics - in vivo degradation in the SubQ space as impact factor for reduced bioavailability | $310,000 |
| Timmons, Lisa | Molecular Biosciences | National Science Foundation | EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER): Overcoming transformation and germline expression barriers | $300,000 |
| Swinburne Romine, Russell | Achievement & Assessment Institute | National Center On Deaf Blindness | National Center on Deaf-Blindness (NCDB) | $298,268 |
| Prohira, Steven | Physics and Astronomy / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Windows on the Universe - Multi-Messenger Astrophysics: The Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos: Toward a Transformative Technology for Neutrino | $297,439 |
| Husic, Admin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-4:NSF:Assessing Dynamic Connectivity of Streams and Wetlands across Spatial and Human Gradients with Deep Learning | $259,515 |
| Walker, James | Geology | Texas A & M University College Station | Broadening Community Use and Adoption of StraboSpot | $233,536 |
| Peterson, Andrew | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | University of Oklahoma | Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention Phase 1: International Center for Avian Influenza Pandemic Prediction and Prevention | $219,264 |
| Liming, Kiley | Social Welfare | Oklahoma Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse | Oklahoma Infant Toddler Court Program (OKITCP) | $156,250 |
| Davidson, Andrew | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Security Agency | GenCyber Summer Camp at the University of Kansas -- Inspiring the Next Generation of Cyber Defenders | $145,794 |
| Yi, Richard | Psychology / Life Span Institute | Henry Ford Health System | Improving Decision Making to Prevent Substance Misuse among Adolescents from Traditionally Underserved Communities | $118,981 |
| Teator, Aaron | Chemistry | American Chemical Society | Post-Polymerization Diversification of Polyacrylamides Using Amide Activation | $110,000 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Streambank Evaluation of the Cottonwood and Neosho Rivers above John Redmond Reservoir | $100,000 |
| Hall, Jean | Life Span Institute | The City University of New York | Disability and Health Data Collaborative: Using Data to Promote the Health and Wellness of People with Disabilities | $99,999 |
| Lovell, Scott | Higuchi Biosciences Center | Seattle Children's Hospital | Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease Renewal | $81,652 |
| Wolfe, Michael | Medicinal Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Development of a Simple Animal Model for Familial Alzheimer's Disease | $65,000 |
| Parsons, Robert | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Maxtech Inc. | Lightweight Cellular Concrete Testing for Use as an Approved Substitute for Flowable Fill A Research Proposal | $58,000 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | The Kansas Geological Society | Software Development for Kansas Electronic Data Integration | $50,000 |
| Mollet, Amanda | Educational Leadership & Policy Studies / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Spencer Foundation | Queer Intimacies: A Qualitative Examination of LGBTQ+ College Students' Expericence in Healthier Intimate Relationships | $49,866 |
| Hardy, Saralyn | Spencer Museum of Art | National Endowment For The Arts | To Support Research and Preliminary Work for the 2025 Exhibition STREET NIHONGA: The Art of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani and Accompanying Publication | $40,000 |
| Miao, Yinglong | Molecular Biosciences | KU Endowment Association | Mechanism of Polycystin-1 Signal Transduction in Complex with Polycystin-2 | $40,000 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | tiny-k Infant Toddler Assistive Technology Services | $40,000 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Hospital Association | Estimating the Economic Impact of the Health Care Sector in Kansas and Kansas Counties | $39,793 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Terrametrics Agriculture Inc. | U.S. County Level Corn & Soybean Yield Modeling and Brazil & Argentina Soybean Yield Model Development & Implementation | $34,000 |
| Kwon, Gibum | Mechanical Engineering | Kansas Soybean Commission | Sustained Irrigation of Soybean-Farm Utilizing Soybean Nanoclays as Natural Soil Additives | $32,856 |
| Dixon, Dan | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Cancer Center Support Grant - Drug Discovery, Delivery and Experimental Therapeutics Component (D3ET) | $31,539 |
| Neufeld, Kristi | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Cancer Center Support Grant - Cancer Biology Program | $28,949 |
| McCoy, Kelly | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training | Kansas Division of Emergency Managment | Hazardous Materials Training to fire and emergency services personnel in the State of Kansas delivered through Kansas Fire & Rescue Training Institute 2022-2023 | $25,000 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Jet Propulsion Lab - California Technology | 2023A Keck/NIRC2: TESS Planet Validation with AO Imaging VIII | $17,700 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Jet Propulsion Lab - California Technology | NASA/Keck: Go Long: Wide Companions in Short-Period Exoplanet Systems | $17,700 |
| Alian, Mohammad | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Conference: Student Travel Grant Request for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software | $15,000 |
| Von Esenwein, Silke | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Van Go Inc | Van Go, Inc. Data Audit and Impact Report | $12,488 |